Winkler municipal offices remain closed following cyberattack

All municipal offices remain closed in Winkler after the city experienced a cyberattack earlier this week.

On Wednesday, the City of Winkler said it was responding to a cybersecurity incident that was impacting the information technology systems.

“The incident was detected by the city’s cybersecurity protection systems, which resulted in immediate measures being taken to isolate affected systems and limit further impact. As a precaution, certain municipal systems and services were taken offline while the situation is assessed,” the city said in a social media post on Wednesday.

Thursday morning, Winkler was still working to resolve the issue and decided to take the steps of closing public works, city hall and Meridian Exhibition Centre administration offices for the rest of the week.

This incident comes after the RM of Gimli was also the victim of a cyberattack in April.