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Alto City

Alto City Data Breach (2016)

Alto City

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Disclosed

March 1, 2016

3678 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Phishing

Industry

Government

Description

An Alto city employee unknowingly opened an email attachment to download the alleged invoice, when a virus “grabbed files inside the computer and encrypted them, saying we had to pay a ransom of $500 to get our files back