North Miami ransomware shuts down administrative and police systems
The US city of North Miami was hit by a cyberattack using ransomware that disrupted administrative services. Federal authorities joined the investigation and City Hall announced plans to reopen. As of August 15, the police system and online utility payment service remained down.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- City of North Miami
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Disruption of 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 cyberattack, 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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