Fired an IT tech? They hould have fired the F'ing IT Manager for not having off-line backups.Officials from Lake City, Florida, have fired an IT employee last week after the city was forced to approve a gigantic ransomware payment of nearly $500,000 last Monday.
The employee, whose name was not released, was fired on Friday, according to local media reports [1, 2], who cited the Lake City mayor.
The city's IT manager is also planning to revamp the town's entire IT department to prevent a similar incident from happening in the future.
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