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Cyberattack Costs St Marys $1.3 Million

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A cyberattack against St Marys last summer has costed the town around $1.3 million as well as a $290,000 bitcoin ransom payment paid to the hackers.

The towns computer systems were hit with the attack on July 20th last year with St Marys cybersecurity team later received a ransom demand from LockBit.

St Marys hired a third party negotiator to arrange for the ransom payment sending $290,000 to the hackers to get keys to the computer systems.