07/08/2021

‘It Shut Down Everything’

Global ransomware attack takes a small town offline

It was just after 12:30 p.m. on the Friday before the Fourth of July holiday when a warning popped up on Laschelle McKay's computer screen.

McKay, the town administrator for Leonardtown, Md., didn't even have time to read the whole message before it disappeared and her computer froze.

"Everything shut down," she said in an interview. "You couldn't open open any document, you're completely locked from all your files."

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