A southern California county sheriff’s department paid a ransom of $1.1 million to cyber hackers to remove ransomware that affected some of the department’s systems, the county has confirmed.
A cyberattack in April disrupted the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s network, interrupting a limited number of systems, including the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System used by deputies to look up whether a person is wanted for crimes.
After negotiating with the hackers, the county and its insurance carrier agreed to pay the ransom to restore the system’s full functionality and secure any data involved in the breach, the county’s spokesman David Wert told The Epoch Times in a statement on May 5….