Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday announced $1.2 million in disaster recovery funds for St. Paul in the wake of a cyberattack that crippled the city’s computer networks last summer.
St. Paul city officials previously said a July 25 ransomware attack exposed 43GB of data from a Parks and Recreation hard drive. Shortly after, the city shut down its computer systems to contain the breach and later had roughly 3,500 municipal employees scrub their data and reset their login information.
The governor activated the Minnesota National Guard to respond to the crisis, which his office said “exceeded the city’s response capacity.”
