Ransomware attack forces Alaska suburb to revert to typewriters, rebuild email from scratch

StateScoop: Municipal employees in the suburbs of Anchorage, Alaska, have had to revert to typewriters to accomplish some tasks since some government systems were taken down by a sophisticated malware cocktail last week.

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough has been dealing with the aftermath of the cyberattack since July 24, when malware was detected on several internal servers. The FBI’s Cyber Crime division is investigating the incident, along with a similar hack reported in the neighboring city of Valdez.

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