Baltimore’s 911 system and a range of city services in Atlanta were hijacked in the past week.

Hacks against cities have dominated headlines over the last week, and officials are left with a difficult decision to make.

After battling the fallout from an Atlanta ransomware attack for five days, Mayor Keisha Bottoms said City Hall has finally begun to recover and turn systems back on.

Following am early-morning ransomware attack on March 22 that encrypted data across computers in Atlanta’s city government offices, the city is working with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security,  Microsoft and Cisco’s incident cybersecurity response teams to determine the extent of the attack and unlock the computers.