New York’s Suffolk County Spends $16.4 Million to Recover from Ransomware Attack

Sources familiar with the effects of last year’s ransomware attack on Suffolk County in the state of New York say the incident has forced government officials to spend in excess of $16 million on recovery efforts. Hackers initially penetrated Suffolk’s computer system on Dec. 19, 2021. As reported by the NY Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/nyregion/suffolk-county-cyberattack.html], the attackers made their way in by exploiting a flaw in “an obscure but commonplace piece of software” vi