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Suffolk County cyberattack recovery costs hit $25M; final tab still being tallied

Posted on July 21, 2024 by Dissent

Remember how Suffolk County in New York had decided cyberinsurance was too expensive and how they got hit with a ransomware attack by AlphV in 2022. The county not only had no insurance, but it had no cyberattack recovery plan.   Mark Harrington reports another update on that incident:

Suffolk County approved more than $25 million in spending in the aftermath of one of the nation’s most devastating ransomware attacks against a U.S. municipality — a figure more than four times higher than past official figures, according to a county analysis and a Newsday review of hundreds of pages of billing documents.

County officials frequently cited $5.4 million in additional spending in the aftermath of the Sept. 8, 2022, attack, which took down critical county systems; exposed the personal information of about 470,000 residents and 26,000 past and current employees; crippled police dispatch services for weeks, and shut down the county’s main website for months. Payment systems, public records access and online testing systems were impacted, and some officials say the effects are still being felt.

Read more at Newsday.

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