Ransomware Attack Targets City Departments of Baltimore

On May 7th , “Robinhood” ransomware successfully attacked and disrupted city services of Baltimore. At this time, several reports indicate that no progress has been made and local government bodies are simply unable to offer city services due to compromised data and servers. Without effective data protection solutions in place, experts expect a high volume of data loss and a prolonged outage of city services.
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