City says missing records, inaccessible systems and wiped devices found after an administrative transition prompted requests for state and federal help.
The attack knocked out the office’s network, moved dispatch work to Seymour police and left officers filing reports in Word documents, according to Lt. Adam Nicholson.
Editor’s Note (Updated: Dec. 18, 2025): This story was updated to reflect later reporting that the incident escalated beyond an initial outage into a data-theft extortion case, plus the
