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St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

With no ransom demand it's gotta be a state actor probing defenses and testing responses, right? I think first guesses would be Russia, China, Iran or maybe North Korea.

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[–] piecat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Or some bored teenager somewhere

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago

That sounds much more likely. I don't care about St. Paul and I'm American, why would China or Russia care? Also, state and city governments all handle things differently, so the only takeaway is that St Paul's IT is probably incompetent.

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