The City of Woodstock has disclosed the details of the cyber incident it experienced on September 20th this year and added it its statement that it took almost $667,220 to rebuild the computer network and restore critical data from the ransomware attack.
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As the city based in London, Ontario, Canada said no to hackers it had to shell out more money as overhaul costs.
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The break down of the cyber attack costs are as follows-
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As IT consulting firm Deloitte was approached to investigate the incident, the city had to pay $562,656.48 to remediate the effects.
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It is reported that the cityās IT staff worked for 880 hours of overtime to restore the computer system for a compensated pay of $55,000.
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Siskinds LLP was approached and paid $8,854.13 during the investigations
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The IT authorities of the City of Woodstock paid Scalar $31,784.85
PC Option $5,031.86
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CDW Firewall- $4,449.68
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And miscellaneous expenses accounted for $560
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āAs this was an extraordinary event which cannot be accommodated into the regular yearly budget, the expenses were deducted from reserve accountsā, said City CAO David Creery.
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Note 1-Ā Some of the costs will be covered in the municipality modernization grant from next yearās annual budget
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Note 2-Ā Woodstock city is based in Southwestern Ontario of Canada and is known as a dairy capital of Canada and promotes itself as āThe Friendly Cityā.