N.C. County Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Seized Government Computers

The government of Mecklenburg County, N.C., which includes the city of Charlotte, said that it would not pay a $23,000 ransom to a group of hackers who seized control of several government computer systems. The breach was announced on Tuesday when the county government said on Twitter that it was “experiencing a computer-system outage.”

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