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IL: Quincy facing one of the ‘worst cyber attacks’ to ever hit the community

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Dissent

Rebecca Duffy reports:

The city of Quincy is dealing with what the mayor calls one of the worst cyber attacks to ever hit the community, and they still don’t know how it happened.

Mayor Mike Troup said around 7:30 Saturday morning the city of Quincy was got hit by a cyber attack.

“This probably is going to go down as one of the worst cyber attacks for any organization in this community,” Troup said.

Read more at WGEM.

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