Hacker attack on Tulln: City administration in chaos, IT fights for solutions!

In the night of Monday, February 10, on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, the municipality of Tulln was the target of a serious hacker attack that blocked access to all servers. The entire server infrastructure is affected, and the data stored in the city has been encrypted, as the city administration reports. Due to the attack, the administrative company is severely restricted; Many services are currently not possible. The IT department is working intensively to find a solution, supported by external IT experts and the security authorities. These investigations are essential to clarify the dimensions of the attack and check possible data losses, so The city administration informs the citizens that urgent inquiries can be processed by phone. Critical services such as building permits will continue to be handled within the legally prescribed deadlines. It should be noted that the infrastructure such as water and sewer supply is not impaired. However, the cashless payment in leisure companies does not work for the time being, and transition solutions such as handwritten cash books are set up. Much depends on the quick progress of the analyzes and investigations that take place in close cooperation with security authorities at the federal and state levels, the 5min .