Louisiana government computers knocked out after ransomware attack

Many state agencies had their servers taken down in response to the attack, Governor John Bel Edwards said in a series of messages posted to Twitter. Ransomware works by scrambling data held on vulnerable computers and demanding a payment to unlock it. Louisiana Secretary of State spokesman Tyler Brey said that while his office’s website was briefly offline, the tallying of Saturday’s vote, in which Bel Edwards narrowly won re-election, was unaffected.

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