The government of Baltimore reportedly lost a lot of key data in ransomware attacks earlier this year because it did not have basic policies for backing up employee systems. A new audit has shown that prior to the attack, at least, the only copies of critical data that the city had in many instances was what was stored on user systems. The May 7 attack on the city disrupted multiple critical services and forced several operations into manual mode. The attackers demanded the equivalent of over $76,000 in bitcoin as ransom for decrypting the encrypted data.”]