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Tonight Riviera Beach Florida is the latest City to pay hackers who took over its computer system. To pay a ransom Amount of approximately 65 bitcoins. It's City Council voted unanimously to pay a Six hundred thousand dollar ransom to retrieve its records. Some residents are furious there was an inadequate backup system. I don't care the survey most of the money. You still using taxpayers money wrong. This year the inspector general here in chicago warned this city is unprepared for a cyber attack.
The big question, if Cities are hacked should they pay up or not. Last year Atlanta refused to pay about fifty thousand dollars in Bitcoin. Baltimore also didn't pay a ransom of about 76 thousand dollars. Even though the attack cost the city more than 18 million. The price of not paying too high for smaller towns such as Leeds Alabama where the mayor decided to pay an eight thousand dollar ransom. We were devastated, We've got people depending on us to pay our bills. Federal authorities are now investigating this latest cyberattack in florida, hoping to stop more cities from being held for ransom.
