{"id":716544,"date":"2026-06-21T01:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716544\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T01:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:51:18","slug":"metro-atlanta-city-discloses-cybersecurity-incident-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716544\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Atlanta city discloses cybersecurity incident \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ACWORTH, Ga. \u2014 The city of Acworth said a cybersecurity incident on June 8 affected some of the city\u2019s computer systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Once the city learned of the issue, it said city officials contacted a cybersecurity professionals and law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The city said in a news release distributed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CityOfAcworthGA\/posts\/pfbid02H9AuaycMUWzWTygcxivoFp6i8boyHisjaX3ZcEetHTeJvmV1PC8xxfCBNE7kAAgwl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CityOfAcworthGA\/posts\/pfbid02H9AuaycMUWzWTygcxivoFp6i8boyHisjaX3ZcEetHTeJvmV1PC8xxfCBNE7kAAgwl\">via a social media post<\/a> that its systems are now fully operational. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">&#8220;We are actively working with these partners to investigate this matter and to help ensure the continued security of our systems,&#8221; the city said, without going into further detail the nature of the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">City officials said because the investigation is ongoing, they couldn\u2019t go into further details. They said they\u2019d disclose more about the incident as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cAll systems have been restored, and there is no impact to day-to-day operations,\u201d the city said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/smart-tv\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wsbtv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ACWORTH, Ga. \u2014 The city of Acworth said a cybersecurity incident on June 8 affected some of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[308769,4,450,3048,4001,7257,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-716544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-acworth","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-computers","tag-cybercrime","tag-cybersecurity","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}