The Sea-Tac Airport website is back up and running after a ransomware attack shut several systems offline late during the summer.
“The biggest thing that people have been asking for has been when our website would be coming back up and when the SEA Visitor pass would come back on, which is a popular program that folks can get,” Sea-Tac Airport spokesman Perry Cooper said to KIRO Newsradio Monday.
Officials confirmed the cyberattack brought down websites, email and many airport services and it disconnected phone services.The Aug. 24 cyberattack The criminal group’s plan is to publish others in seven days unless the Port of Seattle pay 100 bitcoin. Given that the value of 1 bitcoin hovered between $54,000 and $64,000 in September, the group demanded a ransom of about $6 million to stop the dissemination of private information.
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