Louisiana governor declares state emergency after local ransomware outbreak - ZDNet
IT networks are down at all three school districts, and files have been encrypted and are inaccessible
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Florida city pays $600,000 ransom to save computer records – AP
https://apnews.com/0762caec21874fc09741abbdec0f78ab
The Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously this week to pay the hackers’ demands, believing the Palm Beach suburb had no choice if it wanted to retrieve its records, which the hackers encrypted.
BitPaymer Ransomware Infection Forces Alaskan Town to Use Typewriters for a Week
Thousands of patient records held for ransom in Ontario home care data breach, attackers claim - CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/carepartners-data-breach-ransom-patients-medical-records-1.4749515
The attackers told CBC News in an encrypted message that they discovered vulnerable software on CarePartners’ network that had not been updated in two years