North Miami ransomware shuts down administrative and police systems
The US city of North Miami was hit by a cyber-attack using ransomware that disrupted administrative services. Federal authorities joined the investigation and City Hall announced plans to reopen. As of 15 August, the police system and online utility payment service remained down.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- City of North Miami
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Disruption to administrative services and outage of the police system and online utility payments
- Cause / method
- Ransomware attack
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- North Miami City Hall announced plans to reopen after the cyber-attack, and federal authorities joined the investigation into the ransomware attack.
- The outage of the police system and online utility payment service continued.
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