U.S. Towns Are Being Hit with Cyber Demands—Did Yours Make the List?
The cyberattack that crippled Atlanta earlier this year may have been one of the more noteworthy hacks of a public entity, but the Georgia state capital certainly hasn’t been the only city targeted by cyber criminals in recent months – or even the one with the biggest ransom demand.
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“It’s not a new threat at all and, frankly, it’s one that our firm and my practice have been focused on for a couple of years now. We were writing about this back in 2016 when it seemed to be that the hackers were focusing on local governments and school and hospitals and police stations,” said Jared Zola, a partner in Blank Rome LLP’s insurance recovery group. “We, at the time, were surmising that these types of organizations were maybe easier to target, and didn’t have the same level of data security and data security personnel that a large corporation may have.”
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"U.S. Towns Are Being Hit with Cyber Demands—Did Yours Make the List?," by Alicja Grzadkowska was published in Insurance Business America on July 30, 2018.