Officials: Animal chew through cable, causing Suffolk sites to crash

Nov 29, 2023, 11:01pmUpdated 9h ago By: News 12 Staff Suffolk officials say an animal, likely a rodent, caused the Wi-Fi in county offices to temporarily go offline on Tuesday.

They say the animal chewed through an above-ground cable, causing the Suffolk County and Suffolk County Police Department websites to crash.

The problem started at around 1 p.m. and was restored two hours later.