Hackers hold up PD for $489

Published in the March 4, 2016 edition

MELROSE — The city’s Police Department has joined a growing list of entities victimized by a Bitcoin ransom.

Late last week, according to Chief Mike Lyle, his men could not access records or write reports electronically because people had hacked into the department’s in-house computer software and “held…

 

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