{"id":197525,"date":"2026-03-19T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/foster-city-services-impacted-by-cyber-security-breach\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:20:10","slug":"foster-city-services-impacted-by-cyber-security-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/foster-city-services-impacted-by-cyber-security-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster City services impacted by cyber security breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/03\/19\/foster-city-services-impacted-by-cyber-security-breach\/\">Foster City services impacted by cyber security breach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/03\/19\/foster-city-services-impacted-by-cyber-security-breach\/\">https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/03\/19\/foster-city-services-impacted-by-cyber-security-breach\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-19 23:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.mercurynews.com\">www.mercurynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. FOSTER CITY \u2014 Public services in Foster City have largely been suspended in the wake of a cybersecurity breach, according to the city.<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware was discovered on city networks Thursday morning, the city said in a news release.<br \/>\n\u201cAs a result,\u201d the city said, \u201cpublic services outside of emergency responses have been temporarily paused.\u201d<br \/>\nAn investigation is underway into the extent of the breach, the city said, adding that \u201climited information is publicly available at this time.\u201d The city manager\u2019s office is in the process of declaring a state of emergency, which will allow the city to receive outside support.<\/p>\n<p>The city said emergency services such as 911 and police dispatch are \u201cfunctional and unaffected.\u201d<br \/>\nPublic information may have been accessed during the breach, according to the city.<br \/>\n\u201cThe public\u2019s safety is our highest priority,\u201d City Manager Stefan Chatwin said in a statement, \u201cso we encourage members of our community to take precautions that would best assure the security of their personal information.\u201d<br \/>\nChatwin said city employees, with the assistance of outside experts, are \u201cworking diligently to restore the integrity of the city\u2019s system and ensure there are no further security issues impacting services to our community.\u201d<br \/>\nCheck back for updates.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foster City services impacted by cyber security breach https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/03\/19\/foster-city-services-impacted-by-cyber-security-breach\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-19 23:06:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Data_Services_Cyberattack_25157-1.jpg?w=1024&h=682","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24],"class_list":["post-197525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197527,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197525\/revisions\/197527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}