Ville de Laval is targeted by a computer attack and has interrupted some of its online services to citizens. According to Mayor Stéphane Boyer, a “limited” amount of information was stolen, but the municipality does not know which documents it corresponds to.
Posted at 3:08 p.m.
Updated at 4:28 p.m.
To protect itself from hackers, the City has disconnected access to some of its services via the Internet. “We are currently trying to prevent a computer attack,” said Stéphane Boyer at a press conference.
He explains that the attack came through an employee’s email, which the cybercriminals compromised.
He assures that the City’s databases “has” no reason to believe “that citizens’ personal information has been” stolen or stolen “.
The municipality is asking for the “collaboration” of citizens “in order to avoid the use of online services to communicate with the City”, until Sunday, September 18. She asks to use “in-person or telephone services” instead, until Sunday.
“Our teams are currently working to restore services as quickly as possible,” the municipality said on Twitter.
According to the checks of The Press, the permit payments page does not open. It is also impossible to consult the municipal assessment roll.
Other pages seem to work normally, such as the library site.