(CNN) When Albany, New York, patrolman Gregory McGee went to work last Sunday morning, he got the unpleasant news that hackers had rendered many of the internet-connected tools he relied on for work inoperable. "We were crippled, essentially, for a whole day," McGee, who's vice president of the Albany Police Department's union, told CNN. "We were like, who's working today?" The culprit was the City of Albany getting infected last Saturday with ransomware, in which malicious software spreads across a network, rendering computers inaccessible, encrypting their files and demanding a fee to go away. The city had recently taken over management of most of the police department's networks.

Source: CNN April 06, 2019 12:11 UTC