Atlanta's Ransomware Isn't an 'Isolated Incident'

Route Fifty: For nearly a week, a ransomware attack crippled the City of Atlanta, sending government operations back 30 years in the process. Residents could no longer pay bills online, police officers filled out reports by hand, and all unscheduled court cases were postponed until further notice.

That, of course, was just the technology side of the equation.

“I just want to make the point that this is much bigger than a ransomware attack,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms said six days after the attack as the city began to get back online. “This is really an attack on our government, which means it's an attack on all of us.”

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