Chaos In Baltimore: City Government Paralyzed by Cryptocurrency Ransomware Attack
8th May 2019
One week after troubled ex-Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned after a criminal probe over her children’s book series, the entire Baltimore City computer network system was shut down after a ransomware attack, The Baltimore Sun reports. Across the city, multiple intergovernmental agencies sent employees home Tuesday after email servers and communications platforms went dark. And according to a press meeting on Wednesday morning, the city’s communication system remains down.