Calgary Public Library branches reopen with limited service after cyberattack

All Calgary Public Library (CPL) locations reopened Wednesday with modified services aft a cybersecurity breach forced branches to adjacent Friday.

Visitors present person entree to services that don’t necessitate exertion portion CPL IT teams proceed to analyse the breach.

“We privation radical to cognize it’s going to look a small spot different, a small aged school,” said Mary Kapusta, CPL manager of communications and engagement. “For instance, you tin browse our collections and instrumentality retired books, we’ll person manual checkouts going with our staff.”

Rooms are disposable connected a archetypal come, archetypal served basis, and programs that don’t necessitate technology, including Family Storytime, Baby Rhyme Time and Reading Buddies, person resumed.

“Anything that requires integer services oregon technology, printing, Wi-Fi, automated country bookings, programme registration, has been enactment connected intermission close now,” Kapusta said. “We admit your patience arsenic we’re moving to get it each backmost up arsenic soon arsenic we can.”

The probe into the breach is ongoing, and astatine this constituent it’s chartless the grade of the compromised information oregon who is liable for the attack.

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The CPL containment process has been enabled and services volition travel backmost online arsenic it is deemed harmless to bash so, but Kapusta says it volition inactive beryllium a portion earlier the each the details and afloat standard of the onslaught are known.

“We privation to marque definite erstwhile we travel backmost to afloat service, we’re doing it safely.”

A afloat database of the services and programs disposable tin beryllium recovered on the library’s website.