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Spacing investigation: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack, pt. III

City officials were sternly warned to beef up cyber-security two years before Toronto Library attack

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This is a five-part series independently produced and investigated by Spacing At some point in mid-2020, with the pandemic raging, the Toronto Public Library began working with the Gartner Group, a large U.S. research and IT consulting firm, to re-launch the TPL’s 2020-2024 Digital Strategy, work on which had been sidelined by the lockdown. Tucked into the TPL’s broader strategic plan, the new program — unveiled with a certain amount of bureaucratic fanfare in January, 2021... Read more

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