Cyber security breach discussed at Hamilton’s city council meeting

The ongoing cyber security breach continued to bring the City of Hamilton to a halt on Wednesday.
It’s now the breach’s fourth day, and Hamilton’s city council held a “closed-door meeting” to discuss the breach, before quickly postponing any other business. This includes the contentious parking lot vs housing debate in Stoney Creek.
Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath did not go into any detail about what kind of cyber security incident the city is dealing with, she did say that city staff and other tech experts are working hard to resolve the problem.
Due to the cyber incident, Hamilton’s city council deferred the rest of Wednesday’s agenda to another council meeting and spent several hours discussing the details of the breach.
Mayor Horwath says they “are bringing all of the experts possible that we can access to help us deal with this situation.”
Mayor Horwath was asked about what kind of sensitive data if any may have been accessed but responded that it was “too premature to at this point to talk about that, we’re working with experts to get as much information as we can get as well as what is possible to provide publicly.”
One of the topics put off until a later council meeting was the discussion over the parking lot in Stoney Creek. The mayor hopes the added time will allow some councillors to reconsider their positions.
Mayor Horwath said, “we have a housing shortage in the city of Hamilton. We need to show our city is at the table with the not-for-profit centre and others as they go looking for more money and one of the best ways of doing that is with city properties.”
Ward 5 Councillor Matt Francis, who voted against developing this parking lot, said, “I think the councillors who voted in opposition to this plan like myself, to build and take away parking lots from them, businesses who said their businesses were going to close down.”
Francis continued to say, that he among seven other councillors felt a connection to the issue. “If that was in their ward how would they respond, and they would definitely stand up for their community as well,” he said.
Francis believes other areas in his ward would be perfect for development aside from the current location.
Councillor Francis said, “I brought a motion forward to have Dominic Agostino rec centre, the affordable housing building built on top of there that was committed to a sub-committee, the Hamilton Wentworth district school board brought a motion on Monday night that unanimously approved the board going and looking at that idea and I’m confident that is an alternative solution that will be a successful replacement for my community.”
As for the cyber security breach, the mayor says city staff and experts are working around the clock trying to resolve the issue, and she’s asking for patience from Hamiltonians while it gets sorted out.

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So when you guys fixing this ? It's been a week now.