COLUMBUS, Ohio — It’s been more than a week since the City of Columbus says a cybersecurity incident forced it to shut down some of its IT services.

While the city works to restore them, there are lots of groups that want answers, including See Brilliance. 

What You Need To Know

• The City of Columbus says a cybersecurity incident forced it to shut down some of its IT services


• While the city works to bring services up and running again, there are lots of groups that want answers, including See Brilliance


• See Brilliance is a nonprofit that provides youth and families educational experiences by tapping into their S.T.E.A.M skills

See Brilliance is a nonprofit that provides youth and families educational experiences by tapping into their S.T.E.A.M (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) skills. 

Nathan Harris said it's all possible thanks to grants from the City of Columbus. 

"We receive a total of $70,000 (to) be able to do our summer work,” he said.

Harris says they've received some grant money already, but because of the cybersecurity incident that’s impacted the city for the last week, Harris said the second installment hasn’t come in yet, putting pressure on them to find other sources of income.

"We definitely have reached out to our donor funds just to make sure that the programs on, which we've already promised, aren't impacted or further delayed because we don't want to stop the fun of the children,” Harris said.

But See Brilliance aren't the only ones impacted. Earlier this week, the police department announced its online records portal was done, forcing residents to call its non-emergency in order to file a police report.

Brian Steel with the fraternal order of police released a statement saying: “We are confident that this matter will be resolved soon and that no community services will be impacted. Cyber-attacks are an attack on us all, and we are committed to working with the city to prevent this from occurring again.” 

But, as far as Harris is concerned, he's hoping to see things fully restored in no time.

"I’m very hopeful for the future," he said. "And hopefully this becomes a learning opportunity for all city governments and so forth, so that we have better preventative action in place so that, you know, this doesn't happen again. "

Harris also said he's concerned if things aren't fixed soon, it could delay their payroll. Meanwhile, the city says the incident happened last Thursday and was completely separate from the global IT outage.