Lake City IT boss fired for ransomware payment
From the linked news report, it sounds more like the insurance company made the decision to pay the ransom to save themselves some money, and it cost the City just $10k.
The City IT Director may have been on the hook for allowing the incident to arise in the first place. Someone senior should be fired. But whether the responsibility lies with the IT Director or someone else, e.g. a Finance Director who refused to budget for DR & backups, is debatable.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
