Overview
- Foster City’s council voted 4-0 on Monday to declare a local emergency to speed access to outside help.
- Most municipal systems are still down, with phones and email disabled and City Hall offering only limited services as police and 911 continue to operate.
- Officials took the network offline and brought in independent cybersecurity specialists, with state and federal agencies looped into the investigation.
- The city has not confirmed any exposure of personal data and is urging anyone who has done business with the city to change passwords.
- Security experts say small cities are frequent ransomware targets and warn that full recovery often takes weeks, sometimes three to six, even when key services come back sooner.