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August 4, 2020 by Lance Gibb

City of Lafayette pays $45,000 ransom

Lafayette city officials announced they were hit with a ransomware attack on July 27th.

The attack disabled network services causing city emails, phones, online payments and reservation systems to be affected. A ransom of $45,000 was paid to retrieve the key and unlock the encrypted data.

A preliminary investigation shows the ransomware entered the city’s network through a phishing scam or brute force attack, and looks to be random.

See the city’s statement on the outage here.

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