NEWBURGH – Newburgh City Hall is scheduled to reopen today (Monday) after it was closed when officials identified what they called a “network security incident” on Monday, June 10.
The computer system cyber-attack led to a disruption of some city services and administrative services.
Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus said the county has been assisting the city.
“We sent in a team in the City of Newburgh. We brought in laptops; we brought in temporary mobile communications systems. I am very proud of our response,” he said.
During the shutdown, operations in the police, fire, water, sewer, sanitation, engineering and recreation departments continued with minor disruptions. The city said 911 services remained fully functional.
But the city was unable to accept payments for property taxes, water, sewer, sanitation, permit fees and parking tickets. Since those payments can be made online, it is not known if personal banking or credit card information was compromised.
Newburgh Chief of Staff Michael Neppl, who served as acting city manager while City Manager Todd Venning was away on vacation, declined to answer questions from Mid-Hudson News on Sunday evening as to if the investigation revealed its origin, whether there was any damage to city equipment of software as a result, and if the reason the city council recently voted to place its data on the cloud was result of the cyber-attack.
