Alaskan City of Valdez Pays off Bitcoin Ransom After Four Months

2018-11-20 00:00

Officials from the City of Valdez are in the final phases of recovering information from its servers after four months of it being held by cyber-criminals demanding a bitcoin ransom, KTUU reported on November 18, 2018.

Cyberattack That Held City’s Info for Ransom in Final Recovery Phase A small Alaskan town of Valdez became the victim of a malicious cyber-attack. . . Read More. The post by Priyeshu Garg appeared first on BTCManager, Bitcoin, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency News. origin »

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