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No municipality paid ransoms in ‘coordinated ransomware attack’ that hit Texas

Posted on September 7, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports:

A coordinated ransomware attack hit 22 Texas local governments, but none of the impacted municipalities paid ransom demands, Texas state officials said this week.

Three weeks after the incident took place, the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) said that more than half of the impacted entities are now back to operations as usual.

Read more on ZDNet.

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