Minnesota Calls In National Guard After St. Paul Cyberattack Leads to Outages

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said the attack was deliberate and coordinated.

The National Guard near the Lake Street/Midtown metro station in Minneapolis on May 29, 2020. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said on July 29 that he activated the state’s National Guard in response to a large-scale cyberattack on St. Paul that has led to a citywide service outage.

Walz’s office said in a statement that the governor issued an executive order activating “cyber protection assets” from the Minnesota National Guard because the “magnitude and complexity of the cybersecurity incident have exceeded the city’s response capacity.”