Hacker attacks a US city demanding $ 100,000 ransom with Bitcoin

According to the New York Times, hackers attacked the city of Baltimore (Maryland, USA) on May 7 and frozen thousands of computers, accessing people's transactions including water bills. , health, disable email . Hackers have encrypted important city files and ransom about $ 100,000 with Bitcoin.

Hackers leave a message with the content: "We have watched for days. We will not say much, we need money! Hurry up!".

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Hackers attacked Baltimore and demanded ransom with Bitcoin.

The hacker request was rejected by Baltimore city officials. Currently, the city's IT department is trying to fix vulnerabilities in software security and overcome people's access to affected systems.

Information about individuals or groups of hackers behind this attack has yet to be announced. But the Baltimore city government said it had identified the name of the attack software, EternalBlue.

Previously, EternalBlue was used by hackers behind the malicious code Wannacry to perform several other attacks against Ukraine's banks, airports .