Posted on 06/14/2019 7:17:50 PM PDT by Libloather
Baltimore residents will not receive water bills again this month, officials said Wednesday.
Sheryl Goldstein, a deputy chief of staff for the Young administration, said restoring the water billing system and the city’s ability to produce and mail the bills is a priority as Baltimore’s tech crews work to fix operations caused by the May 7 ransomware attack.
She said customers can use the last bill they received as an estimate for the current amount due, and send a payment by mail to the water department at 200 N. Holliday St. Any payment should include the customer’s account number. The city’s staff will also accept a payment made in person at the Holliday Street office.
The city will not charge late fees or penalties for payments missed while the system is offline.
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Baltimore is being held for ransom. How much is it worth?
From the look of things... Not very much.
Balltimore: a city of managerial excellence.....
Inside job
Let the thugs fight it out between themselves LOL!
I just don’t have any hope...
(As a kid took a trip to Pratt Street, what a place. Bet it’s no better now.)
fill your pool
This sh1t is why The Onion couldn’t compete with real life.
Baltimore is being held for ransom. How much is it worth?
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The original ransom demand was for $77,000, which the city has refused to pay. Meanwhile the costs have soared into the tens of millions.
While I agree with not paying ransom, the city government should have been taking care of business (such as implementing ROBUST cyber security) instead of giving its citizens “space to burn” or corruptly “selling” Heathy Holly books to vendors wanting city contracts.
Like the ghetto ‘tards were going to pay.
And it appears they never backed up their computers.
As one person has said, “you can’t make this stuff up.” What a laughable joke Baltimore has become, as well as every other RAT controlled and infested city or state. Penny wise and pound foolish, there is no end in sight. What is the final outcome? A complete failure of government with riots in the streets is not unthinkable.
Baltimore now resembles a sh!thole African city - corrupt, dangerous, garbage, bums all over. How can blacks run what they didn’t build and could never build?
Some good, old-fashioned backups might not hurt either.
“Baltimore now resembles a sh!thole African city - corrupt, dangerous, garbage, bums all over. “
You just described the Florida city where I live and, I imagine, most every city in the U.S. run by Dumbocrats.
What florid city are you in?
Inadequate backup standards.
Some IT idiots need firing.
Criminal incompetence. THis is why you back up your systems people.
malwarebytes and other anti-spyware and anti-virus software block ransomware. Did this city have any such software?
Looks like the city did not perform a reasonable cost-benefit analysis on this event, nor did they prepare with an appropriate risk assessment and subsequent plans for mediation when they should have, long before this event. Someone dropped the ball, big time.
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