No police report due to cyber attack

STEVENS POINT—No weekly police report is available for the week due to the cyber attack that recently struck the city of Stevens Point. Due to the recovery from the cyber attack, the records department is currently unable to send daily reports that detail police work in the community.

In the early morning hours of Sept. 23, Stevens Point was alerted to an issue with several city servers. It was determined that unauthorized access was obtained to the city network. That access was cut off by the city’s IT department.

The investigation is ongoing, however, the city has found no evidence that any citizen data was compromised. So far, the city has found no evidence that any confidential citizen or employee information was compromised or captured. In a press release, Mayor Mike Wiza stated, “We are also confident that the affected units (about 1% of the city’s total devices) have been quarantined and software has been installed to continually monitor the entire network for further anomalies.”

Mayor Wiza stated in a media release that it may take two weeks for all functions to be operating normally.