Cartersville, Georgia, paid a ransom of $380,000 to restore access to their files, according to city officials, nearly a year after the ransomware attack.The disclosure of the payment to neutralize the attack came about as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the local Daily Tribune News. The Daily Tribune discovered that the majority of the ransom was covered by the city’s insurance, with the original demand being for $2.8 million to be paid in bitcoin. About 48 hours after the payment was received, the attackers did provide the decryptor keys required to recover access, and shortly after that, all systems were up and running. City officials discovered through the FOIA that the perpetrators had utilized Ryuk ransomware, and that police and.
