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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Toronto Public Library (TPL) took a major service hit for like 6 months following a cyber-attack. I think they're at full-service now, since going down in September or October. Now this, a much more widespread attack in Hamilton, just down the highway. If this isn't an alarm to increase municipal cybersecurity I don't know what is. This is a real drag to Hamiltonians. It took the TPL like a month just to fully grasp the extent of the loss of service (and as far as I know assessments of how much sensitive data [eg, employee SINs] were illicitly accessed are still ongoing). I hope this gets fixed more quickly!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Our municipalities and governments absolutely do not pay what they should on infrastructure like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's more or less my thinking as well: looks like they're losing the arms race