A few years ago, while visiting old friends in a major metropolitan midwestern city where I grew up, I had the chance to meet an old friend who was working part-time as an IT consultant for a city suburb. This city had its own network and a municipal level court system network. He told me they were hit three times in the recent past by hackers. I asked if any law enforcement agency investigated it and his answer was, “no, we back-up our data every evening and just recovered the following day.
