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Preparing Michigan cities, health systems for more ransomware attacks

OCTOBER 1, 2019 | by Ted Roelofs | BRIDGE

About an hour before dawn in April 2016, a Lansing utility worker opened an email and clicked on a link. In an instant, that set loose a computer virus that locked out the Lansing Board of Water & Light accounting and e-mail networks and closed customer helpline phones for two weeks. Officials later disclosed the cost of that click.

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