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6. Zapping an Entire Town in Spain

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While not actually a town (its technical designation is an “autonomous community”), Navarro, Spain is a beautiful place to visit, but it wasn’t so fun to live there after Hive attacked the community in May of 2022, forcing hundreds of organizations to take their IT systems offline.

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