As a result, all Emergency services remain intact, the city said when it revealed about the attack.
Officials of Lake City, Florida along with the F.B.I.
Soon after paying the ransom, the citys IT staff started decrypting the files.
We had a lot of attempts to recover the data that were unsuccessful, Helfenberg said last Wednesday.
If this process works it would save the city substantially in both time and money.
But, dollars and cents, representing the citizens, that was the right thing to do.
Lake City became the second Florida city to pay a huge ransom demand to a ransomware gang.
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However, city officials said it had managed to restore most of its computer systems.
source: www.techworm.net
