<h1>Florida Town Pays Bitcoin Ransom As Ransomware Continues To Haunt Local Governments</h1>

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Officials in Lake City, Florida, paid $500,000 worth of bitcoin to hackers who had brought down the city’s computer system for two weeks. Lake City is the second Florida town in as many weeks to pay a bitcoin ransom as a result of a ransomware attack.