{"id":99549,"date":"2019-12-10T12:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T20:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/cyber-attack-costs-city-of-woodstock-more-than-660000"},"modified":"2019-12-10T12:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T20:23:03","slug":"cyber-attack-costs-city-of-woodstock-more-than-660000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/cyber-attack-costs-city-of-woodstock-more-than-660000","title":{"rendered":"Cyber attack costs City of Woodstock more than $660,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cyber-attack-costs-city-of-woodstock-more-than-6600002.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The numbers are in, and Woodstock\u2019s September cyber attack is set to cost the city more than $667,000, even though the city didn\u2019t pay, and never reached out, to the hackers behind the ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like a big number \u2013 roughly nine times what nearby Stratford paid as a ransom after a spring cyber attack \u2013 but experts say it\u2019s a short-term hit for a long-term gain in cyber security.<\/p>\n<p>While difficult to compare the Woodstock and Stratford attacks \u2013 no two cities conduct cyber security the same way \u2013 Woodstock\u2019s costs are in line with what residents should expect, one cyber-sector expert said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers are in, and Woodstock\u2019s September cyber attack is set to cost the city more than $667,000, even though the city didn\u2019t pay, and never reached out, to the hackers behind the ransomware. It seems like a big number \u2013 roughly nine times what nearby Stratford paid as a ransom after a spring cyber [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}