“We appreciate our community’s patience while we continue to recover from this cyber attack, and we are pleased to share some good news today,” Neeley said. “After long hours and hard work from both our City of Flint staff and external cyber experts, we have been successful in recovering key data.”
The City of Flint has installed a completely redesigned network, including Next Generation firewalls to deter cyber criminals and strengthen safeguards. The City has also successfully restored the majority of its servers from backup.
As services become available, the City is testing its systems and reviewing data before going live. The City will continue to keep residents and businesses informed when public-facing systems are ready to go live.
As the City of Flint works to restore its systems safely, state-of-the-art safeguards are being installed to prevent a recurrence. Among other protections, the City of Flint has installed advanced software security on servers and computers on its network.
