RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — Riviera Beach city leaders agreed earlier this week to pay a ransom to help get the city’s computer system back online.
At a special council meeting on Monday night, the council voted unanimously to authorize the city’s insurance carrier to pay a 65 Bitcoin ransom to recover the city’s data which has been encrypted.
City leaders say paying the ransom, which equates to about $600,000, will hopefully return the computer system to be fully operational.
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