EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (AP) – A Rhode Island town is restoring access to parts of its municipal computer network following a ransomware attack.
About 75% of East Greenwich’s computer servers were infected with encryption Thursday afternoon.
Town Manager Andrew Nota says town employees shut down their systems as soon as they realized there was an attack.
No town officials communicated with the hackers.
Nota says most of the information the attackers blocked was publicly-available and had recently been backed up.
The town’s information technology department and a third-party vendor have been restoring the information that was encrypted.
No personal information was stolen.
