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This incident highlights how public institutions, often under-resourced for cybersecurity, are attractive targets for ransomware groups precisely because operational downtime creates immediate community pressure to pay. The wide blast radius across multiple systems suggests insufficient network segmentation allowed the malware to spread laterally from an initial foothold. Without rapid recovery capabilities, restoration is expected to take significant time, compounding the impact on the public. 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