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Atlanta Municipal Systems Hit with Ransomware Attack

This entry was posted in SecurityNews on March 23, 2018 by

Atlanta city employees coming to work this morning were handed an unusual notice: don’t turn on your computers. The municipal systems had been hit with a ransomware attack on Thursday, and employees were not to use their computer until they were cleared by the municipal IT group.

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