"Birmingham City Grapples with Ongoing Network Disruption as Officials Stay Mum"
Birmingham city operations have been severely impacted by a week-long computer network disruption, affecting services such as licensing, taxing, and permitting. The cause of the outage and its full extent remain undisclosed, with city officials providing limited information. While public safety and 911 response times have not been affected, the 311-call center is down. Concerns about a potential ransomware attack have arisen, given previous incidents in the region, but the city has not confirmed this.
