UPDATE: Lake City fires employee after paying ransom in malware attack
WCJB reports:
The city manager of Lake City, Joe Helfenberg confirmed that the director of information technology, Brian Hawkins, was fired.
This decision comes after a “Triple Threat” cyber attack that disabled city servers, phones, and email that resulted in ransom.
Lake City paid $460,000 in ransom for a cyber attack through the cyber cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
Read more on WCJB. It doesn’t explain why the employee was fired. Is this just a case of throwing someone under the bus to deflect blame or was their some actually some basis? At this point, it’s unknown.