Four bitcoin for your data: how the City of Valdez retrieved their data after a cyber attack
- November 19, 2018
KTUU – It was Friday, July 27 when City of Valdez employees first realized something was terribly wrong with the city’s computer network. 10 days before, Mat-Su Borough IT staff discovered activity from malicious code in its network.
“It didn’t take us but a moment to realize that there was a good chance we were being attacked with the same ransomware,” Valdez City Manager Elke Doom said. “…the first thing you typically do is you go ahead and do an update, you run your virus software, and…that’s when it will really infiltrate and seize your system.”
“We reached out to them (the
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