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Beaver County Commissioners tapped proceeds from an opioid settlement fund to purchase the cryptocurrency used to pay a six-figure ransom to foreign hackers who had infiltrated county systems.
BeaverCountian.com is learning new details about the county’s dealings with the cybercriminals after County Solicitor Garen Fedeles publicly confirmed our original article during a work session meeting yesterday, though he remained tight-lipped on specifics.
Fedeles’s brief remarks about the infiltration of computer systems used to operate Beaver County Behavioral Health (BCBH) came in response to a question from a member of the public who had read this publication’s reporting.
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