State of Emergency declared… and now the National Guard is deployed
Earlier this week, Minnesota experienced what could be the most alarming digital attack on an American city thus far. The entire city of St. Paul went offline. No Wi-Fi. No servers. No internal infrastructure. A complete blackout.
Now, the National Guard is involved.
Governor Tim Walz has officially declared a state of emergency and has signed an executive order to activate the Minnesota National Guard’s cyber protection unit. Their objective? To ascertain what data — if any — was accessed, stolen, or compromised.
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter made a disturbing statement: “This was not a glitch. It was a deliberate, coordinated attack executed by an external actor who intentionally and criminally targeted our systems.”
This indicates that this was not merely a random outage. Someone has disrupted a U.S. city’s digital infrastructure… and very few are reporting on it.
What is even more concerning is the lack of response. There is no media frenzy. No national alarm. Just a few official statements and local news reports. Meanwhile, the data of an entire American city could potentially be in foreign hands.
Is this merely the beginning? Was this a trial run for something significantly larger? The National Guard has personnel on the ground — not for a hurricane or civil disturbance — but for a conflict in cyberspace.