Florida city will pay hackers $600,000 to get its computer systems back

[MrNoBody]

Baltimore was hit May 7th with a demand for $80,000. They refused to pay
per advice received from the FBI.
Systems are still not 100% restored and secured and the rebuild cost is projected
to be $18,000,000.

Attack is believed to have been caused by the city's IT personnel ignoring several
notices from Microsoft to apply 'patches' to the Windows based system.

Earlier, the NY Times erroneously laid blame on the NSA.

Forbes

Engadget

UNIX anyone :facepalm: