City of Las Vegas experienced a cyber compromise at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. The city was alerted that its computer network had suffered a security breach. Las Vegas fends off an average of 279,000 attempts to breach its systems every month. Recent months have seen a spate of US states and cities struck by ransomware attacks, some of which resulted in criminal gangs successfully extorting ransom payments amounting to millions of dollars. In July last year, Las Vegass mayor was a driving force behind a resolution from the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) agreeing to stand united against paying ransoms in the event of an IT security breach”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/city-of-las-vegas-wakes-up-to-a-cyber-attack/