{"id":950950,"date":"2025-07-30T07:18:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950950"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:02:43","slug":"minnesota-cyber-crisis-tim-walz-deploys-national-guard-after-massive-st-paul-hack-cripples-city-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/30\/minnesota-cyber-crisis-tim-walz-deploys-national-guard-after-massive-st-paul-hack-cripples-city-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Cyber Crisis: Tim Walz deploys National Guard after massive St. Paul hack cripples city systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul is in digital disarray following a massive cyberattack that crippled city services over the weekend. With online payments frozen and internal systems down, Governor Tim Walz has requested assistance from the Minnesota National Guard&#8217;s cyber unit. <\/p>\n<p>What prompted the deployment of the National Guard? <\/p>\n<p>According to city officials, the attack overflowed local response capabilities and interfered with essential services over the weekend. Following a significant cyberattack that disrupted the City of St. Paul&#8217;s digital infrastructure over the weekend, Governor Tim Walz activated the Minnesota National Guard&#8217;s cyber protection unit on Tuesday, as quoted in a report by Patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul is in digital disarray following a massive cyberattack that crippled city services over the weekend. With online payments frozen and internal systems down, Governor Tim Walz has requested assistance from the Minnesota National Guard&#8217;s cyber unit. What prompted the deployment of the National Guard? According to city officials, the attack overflowed local response capabilities and interfered with essential services over the weekend. Following a significant cyberattack that disrupted the City of St. Paul&#8217;s digital infrastructure over the weekend, Governor Tim Walz activated the Minnesota National Guard&#8217;s cyber protection unit on Tuesday, as quoted in a report by Patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}