Ransomware Strikes Dallas, Limiting Some Police and IT Systems

Dallas is experiencing IT and police communication outages following a ransomware attack on municipal systems.

City officials said in a statement Wednesday that hackers had compromised “a number of servers” and that they were working with vendors to try to control the spread of malware. With a ransomware attack, hackers lock up victims’ data or knock services offline, then demand an extortion payment.

“We have been having a system shutdown for the past two days now,” a Dallas 311 operator told Bloomberg News. “We are very limited in what we are able to access internally right now.”

The Dallas police ...