10/01/2026
In 2018, SamSam ransomware locked up City of Atlanta systems — courts, utility billing, police records included. The ransom demand was about $52,000 in bitcoin. The city didn't pay it. Recovery instead cost more than $17 million in emergency IT contracts, new hardware, and consulting — more than 300 times the ransom demand.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻: Proactive security (patching, monitoring, tested backups) is dramatically cheaper than reactive recovery, even when you refuse to pay the attacker a cent.
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