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today Seattle's Chief librarian provided
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Seattle City council members with an
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update on a ransomware attack that
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derailed operations of the library
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throughout the summer now you may recall
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the initial attack happened over
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Memorial Day Weekend Chief librarian Tom
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faay said today that this prompted IT
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staff to shut down all their systems to
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prevent the breach from spreading while
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libraries did remain open SPL had to
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learn how to operate as a mostly offline
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agency as it worked to restore all those
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Services it took more than 3 months to
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reach a full recovery with Library
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getting back to normal just this past
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week one area we continue to work on is
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investigating the data impacts we are
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working with the fic specialist
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consulting firm to examine the data
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these threat actors may have accessed
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it's extremely timeconsuming and
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intricate work that will take another
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few weeks once they've completed their
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examination of this data we will be
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presented with the findings report we
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hope to have that information by next
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month now he went on to say that if
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findings indicate that personal
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information was affected those impacted
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individuals will be notified
