Keith Edwards reports:
A malicious computer virus that hit the city overnight and froze the city’s computer network forced the closure of Augusta City Center Thursday.
The virus, which officials said was intentionally inflicted upon the city’s servers, also shut down computers used by public safety dispatchers — but not the city’s phone system or the public safety radio system relied upon for dispatchers, police, fire and ambulance staff in the field to communicate.
Dispatchers, who don’t have access to their usual computer-aided dispatching system, are tracking calls and the activity and whereabouts of police officers, firefighters and ambulance crews manually.
Read more on Sun Journal.
Thanks to the reader who sent in this link!