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With the town of Brattleboro days from completing an overhaul of their IT network’s cyber protections, hackers managed to infiltrate the Brattleboro Fire Dept system and encrypt a collection of files, demanding over $4,000 in bitcoin as ransom to decode the files. Join Bratt Town Manager Peter Elwell as he details the hack and reports on the town’s decision not to pay the ransom, but rather to recreate the lost files while also finishing the security upgrades needed to better protect town data.
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