Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-03-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: Jackson County
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A Ryuk ransomware attack hits the computers of Jackson County, Georgia, reducing government activity to a crawl until officials decide to pay cybercriminals $400,000 in exchange for the file decryption key.