BTC Ransom: Town in Canada Meets Hackers' Demands to Get PC Systems Up & Running Again

in #news6 years ago

Sep 14, 2018 at 11:45 // News

In the Ontario province of Canada, there is a town known as Midland with a population of over 16,000 people. Recently, its computer systems have been hacked and infected with deadly ransom malware.

Midland town has concluded that they going to meet the demands of the hackers and pay them Bitcoin, with the aim of having the computer system up and running effectively again.

Critical Services not Affected

The attack on the Midland town computer systems left the town to ineffectual computers for almost two days which wrecked the processing of payments, marriage applications, issuance of permits, reloading ...

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