One of the Biggest and Most Boring Cyberattacks Against an American City Yet
A recent ransomware attack on Atlanta’s computer systems is disruptive, but so ordinary.
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I can’t submit an expense report for a recent out-of-town work trip. I’ve got all the receipts, except one from long-term parking at the Atlanta airport. A sensor lets me in and out of the parking lot there, and my account gets charged automatically. Later, I can download a receipt from a website, which I submit to accounting at my university, which creates an expense report, which eventually processes a reimbursement.
But the website has been inaccessible all week. I’m assuming it’s a consequence of the on the City of Atlanta’s computer systems. In what has called “one of the most sustained and consequential cyberattacks ever mounted against a major American city,” a group
