Baltimore mayor open to paying off hackers who paralyzed city, despite once likening it to 'rewarding bank robbers'
May 25, 2019 at 10:24 AM EDT
The mayor of Baltimore said this week that he’s open to paying off the hackers who paralyzed the city’s computer systems and are now demanding about $100,000 to restore the data, despite once likening the payoff as “rewarding bank robbers for robbing banks.”