Accounting and emailing capabilities were stopped immediately when a ransomware attack hit Lansing Board of Water and Light (BWL) in Michigan…<\/p>\n
On April 25, 2016 an employee of BWL <\/a>clicked on a malicious link sent via email, which sprung a cyberattack into action.\u00a0\u00a0A week later, the\u00a0utility company is still struggling to get things back in order.\u00a0 Lansing Board of Water and Light’s\u00a0support services\u00a0were back up and running, as of yesterday. \u00a0According to The Register<\/a>, billing has been rescheduled, as they have\u00a0not been able to access their accounting files.\u00a0 The FBI is currently investigating this attack.<\/p>\n Fortunately, the 96,000 BWL customers did not lose power.\u00a0 The company also uses a third party vendor for credit card handling, so the hackers do not have access to consumer payment data.<\/p>\n We have generated an interactive map that includes all of the ransomware attacks within the United States that have occurred this year. <\/p>\n