A deluge of unanswered questions continue to swirl around Wichita City Hall, where a ransomware attack has disrupted some city services for two weeks. But city officials aren’t answering them now, instead directing anyone with questions to a city webpage that focuses on how public-facing city services have been affected. They won’t say who the city hired to help get the city’s systems back online or how much it is expected to cost taxpayers. They won’t say whether the city will notify residents whose information was compromised — or whether the city plans to pay for identity theft protection for those residents. They won’t say how much revenue the city is losing each day. They also won’t say publicly whether the city paid a ransom, a move that could be illegal under sanctions announced by the U.S. Treasury earlier this year that forbids U.S. entities from paying ransoms to the group that’s claiming credit for the Wichita cyber attack. Federal law enforcement, which the city is working with on the cyber attack, also discourages victims from paying ransoms.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
