Hartford, Conn. city officials were forced to postpone the first day of school set for Tuesday, Sept. 8, after a ransomware virus caused an outage of critical systems. As reported by local news, the City's critical systems were damaged over the weekend and restoration of the systems is still not complete. Hartford Public Schools has approximately 300 servers and more than 200 were attacked in the ransomware virus attack.

Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin stated that the cyber attacker gained access to the systems on Thursday and then on Saturday, the virus actually attacked the systems and the IT team worked through the weekend to access and restore the affected systems. Now the IT team is going system by system and server by server to restore the systems, Bronin added.