The Mad River Twp. Fire and EMS station is currently without years of data, after a ransomware attack infected their systems in August.\u00a0 The Mad River Twp. Fire and EMS station is located in Enon, Ohio.\u00a0 Officials reported <\/a>the encrypted data does not include any personal identification of citizens or employees.\u00a0 They also do not believe the data has been stolen.\u00a0 Yet, at this time, the years of data remains encrypted.\u00a0 The municipality is working with a third-party agency in an attempt to recover the files.<\/p>\n The ransomware variant has not been disclosed, nor has the ransom demand.\u00a0 Although, Chief Elmer Beard stated<\/a>,<\/p>\n \u201cWe chose not to pay for the ransom mostly because based on not only our vendor\u2019s opinion but others if we paid the ransom we may or may not have received a key,\u201d he said. \u201cAnother thing that could happen is they give us a key and the data but it could include another virus in there that would lock the data back up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n To see a full list of ransomware attacks that have taken place this year, you can click here<\/a>. We have also created a ransomware map, see below, of the ransomware attacks that have taken place in the U.S.Other Ransomware Attacks<\/h4>\n
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