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Baltimore mayor open to paying off hackers who paralyzed city, despite once likening it to 'rewarding bank robbers' | Technology News


Baltimore mayor open to paying off hackers who paralyzed city, despite once likening it to 'rewarding bank robbers'



The mayor of Baltimore said this week that he’s open to paying off the hackers who paralyzed the city’s computer systems and are now demanding about $100,000 to restore the data, despite once likening the payoff as “rewarding bank robbers for robbing banks.”

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