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A major electricity supplier in South Africa's largest city [(Johannesburg)] has suffered a ransomware attack, leaving some residents without power. City Power revealed on Thursday that its IT systems had been shut down.
"It has encrypted all our databases, applications and network," the company tweeted, referring to the virus.
City Power's website remains offline and residents have reported problems via social media with their electricity supplies. The ransomware attack initially affected customers' ability to buy pre-paid electricity and also hampered the firm's efforts to respond to localised blackouts.
A spokesman for City Power told the BBC that more than a quarter of a million people might have been affected.
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Grelb's Reminder:
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
average drivers.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Gaaark on Saturday July 27 2019, @03:00AM
The solution is simpler: disconnect important computers from the internet and use a better operating system and do backups and use, you know, security even though it costs money and and and
WHAT is it going to take before people start getting intelligent thoughts?
How many stories like this will it take?
There's a song in this somewhere... but its' blowing in the wind.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---