Atlanta Struggles to Recover From Cyberattack... With Paper, Phones, Atlanta Struggles to Recover From Cyberattack March 31, 2018 — Atlanta's top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyberattack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into technological chaos and forced some city workers to revert to paper.