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Portland Mayor Declares Emergency Due To Citywide IT Outage

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Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler issued an emergency declaration on Friday morning for the city due to an ongoing IT outage. The outage is impacting some city servers and employee computers, causing computer outages and affecting multiple systems globally.

The issue is specifically affecting City servers in the City Data Centers as well as employee computers, with impacts to VPN connection and Single Sign-On (SSO) to cloud services. City services that rely on Microsoft Operating Systems using Crowdstrike Endpoint Protection, including certain essential City service providers, are impacted by the problem, which includes emergency communications.

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