ABILENE, Texas — Today is the deadline for the cyber attack ransom that was demanded by the Russian-based ransomware group known as Qilin.
The City of Abilene has previously stated that they will not be paying this ransom.
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According to a Comparitech article that was released last month, Qilin claims to have stolen 477 gigabytes of data from the City of Abilene.
The ransomware group demanded a ransom to be paid by May 27.
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We recently spoke with one of the nation’s leading experts on cyber security, CEO of CyberCatch, Sai Huda, who had more insight on what this attack means.
KTXS will be speaking with Huda again today about what the City should expect now that we have reached the ransom deadline. We will update this article with more information as we get it.
