Rock County refusing to pay bad actors who launched ransomware attack WCLO

pRock County officials are refusing to pay the 19 million hackers are seeking to unlock files that were encrypted during a recent ransomware attackppCounty Administrator Josh smith says nobody wants to incentivize criminal behaviorppSmith says fortunately all critical systems are back online while some less important systems are still being worked onppIn addition to encrypting data the criminal actor was able to remove files from some county systemsppSmith says fortunately they have no reason to believe that data with the most sensitive personally identifiable information of County employees was takenp