Claim

police department ransomware incident INVOLVES backup failure

The incident involved untested and outdated backups; the latest usable backup was ten months old.

Episode
EP 96 — The Police Station Incident
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Nicole Beckwith
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“they did not test their backups prior to deploying them”

Nicole Beckwith · offsets 8303–8358

“The latest backup they had was from ten months ago.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 8539–8590

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:09:10.128494+00:00

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