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October 16, 2018

Cyberattack costs Alaska area $2M

PALMER, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska borough has spent more than $2 million in recovery efforts after a cyberattack paralyzed its computer systems for weeks, officials said.

The attack in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough took out 650 desktop computers and servers three months ago, knocking offline everything from landfill receipts to borough email, the Anchorage Daily News reported.


 
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