On July 15, 2021 at 4 p.m. the 85 computers of Augusta Cooperative Farm bureau, Inc, flashed, and then the screens went white.  The next morning, the cyber hackers (formally called threat actors) made their ransom known via a phone call. Then five minutes later, the hackers took down the ag retailer’s website. 
 
It took nearly a month until the Stanton, VA, based cooperative was back to business in a new normal and no longer receiving communication from the threat actors.
 
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