{"id":277258,"date":"2026-06-20T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/metro-atlanta-city-discloses-cybersecurity-incident-wsb-tv-channel-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:35:32","slug":"metro-atlanta-city-discloses-cybersecurity-incident-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/metro-atlanta-city-discloses-cybersecurity-incident-wsb-tv-channel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Atlanta city discloses cybersecurity incident \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/cobb-county\/metro-atlanta-city-discloses-cybersecurity-incident\/CWCVRV3SVJAIJHXDWZZGZPJ24Q\/\">Metro Atlanta city discloses cybersecurity incident \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/cobb-county\/metro-atlanta-city-discloses-cybersecurity-incident\/CWCVRV3SVJAIJHXDWZZGZPJ24Q\/\">https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/cobb-county\/metro-atlanta-city-discloses-cybersecurity-incident\/CWCVRV3SVJAIJHXDWZZGZPJ24Q\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-20 17:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wsbtv.com\">www.wsbtv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<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 via a social media post 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: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/cobb-county\/metro-atlanta-city-discloses-cybersecurity-incident\/CWCVRV3SVJAIJHXDWZZGZPJ24Q\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Atlanta city discloses cybersecurity incident \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2 https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/cobb-county\/metro-atlanta-city-discloses-cybersecurity-incident\/CWCVRV3SVJAIJHXDWZZGZPJ24Q\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-20 17:08:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cmg-cmg-tv-10010-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com\/resizer\/v2\/https%3A%2F%2Fcloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com%2Fcmg%2FH3B7PBGINZFL5K2T6DQWXP4LW4.jpg?auth=296618759c9a161890e6ee217cdddb0d79c8d406ecfd74d8215ebc9cbe6765c0&width=1200&height=630&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-277258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277260,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277258\/revisions\/277260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}