The hackers initially demanded $5 million to unlock the city’s data they seized but Wheat Ridge is refusing to pay.
The demand was big: $5 million to unlock Wheat Ridge’s municipal data and computer systems seized by a shadowy overseas ransomware operation.“The city has made the determination not to pay a ransom,” Amanda Harrison, a Wheat Ridge spokeswoman, said this week. “The city’s IT professionals are working diligently to restore files stored within the city’s network from viable backups.”
Things have slowly returned to normal since the intrusion, with the help of the FBI. Harrison said the city “is prepared to inform any residents, businesses, and employees if it is determined their personal information was compromised. That aspect of the investigation is still ongoing.” Some county employees, he said, have been sent notifications about potential data compromise. On Monday, the Fremont County Sheriff’s Officethat its inmate accounting systems “have been deemed unrecoverable” because of the ransomware attack. That means any money that may have been added to a prisoner’s account following the Aug. 15 attack “has been lost.”
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