This article was originally published in The Troy Messenger on June 21, 2019.
On the extreme eastern coast of Florida, near West Palm Beach, sits Riviera Beach, a city of over thirty-two thousand. I visited the city several years ago and learned that Burt Reynolds lived there as a child and his father was once the Riviera Beach Chief of Police.
For the past three weeks, the city has been held hostage by a group of hackers.
Essentially, all city operations have stalled to a crawl. Where paper can be used, it is. However, many of the online operations cannot be replaced with paper; those remain offline. No email, paper payroll checks, no phones, water pump stations went offline, police officers began processing everything with paper, city operations grinded to a halt on 29 May 2019.
What happened?
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