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Ca: Wasaga Pays Ransom for Town Data

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Dissent

Mariane McLeod reports:

Wasaga Beach has paid part of the ransom to hackers who took over the town’s computer system earlier this month.

The computer ransomware attack started Sunday, April 29th. Staff discovered they couldn’t access town data when the arrived on Monday.

Read more on Bayshore Broadcasting.


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