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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAtlanta hacked.
Being held for ransom. Police are working with paper, no computers.
The FBI is working with the City of Atlanta to determine what is causing problems on the citys computer network.
The City of Atlanta is currently experiencing outages on various internal and customer facing applications, including some applications that customers use to pay bills or access court-related information, a city spokesperson said. We are confident that our team of technology professionals will be able to restore applications soon. Our City website, Atlantaga.gov, remains accessible and we will provide updates as we receive them.
The spokesperson would not confirm reports that a hacker had demanded payment in return for unlocking the system.
https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/atlanta-city-hall-computers-hacked-thursday-creating-outages/s9mh6qllB64DbpblHAQjeP/
rzemanfl
(29,569 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)I don't trust this chaos today either.
I feel fear in a whole new way right now.
Subtle but its there.
Stay rational...breathe.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)"Amateur" hackers extorting?
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)I know of 3 upstate NY hospital systems that were completely compromised in the last month.