Ransomware Misses Mark in Ohio Town

Government Technology: Village of Jefferson, Ohio, officials were alarmed, but ultimately unscathed, after a ransomware virus found its way onto a computer late last month.

The infamous strain of malicious software threatens to wipe out affected computers unless victims pay the hackers a ransom before a deadline. The same ransomware attack struck Jefferson village and at least two other entities that contract IT services from Steve Schoneman of Ashtabula’s Schoneman Inc.

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