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'Holy moly!': Inside Texas' fight against a ransomware hack | Govt. & Politics


By JAKE BLEIBERG and ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) — It was the start of a steamy Friday two Augusts ago when Jason Whisler settled in for a working breakfast at the Coffee Ranch restaurant in the Texas Panhandle city of Borger. The most pressing agenda item for city officials that morning: planning for a country music concert and anniversary event.
Then Whisler s phone rang. Borger s computer system had been hacked.
Workers were frozen out of files. Printers spewed out demands for money. Over the next several days, residents couldn t pay water bills, the government couldn t process payroll, police officers couldn t retrieve certain records. Across Texas, similar scenes played out in nearly two dozen communities hit by a cyberattack officials ultimately tied to a Russia-based criminal syndicate. ....

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