To be fair, the CIO was only on the job for 1.5 years when the ransomware hit. It's not known whether or not he had the budget for reorganizing all of the data,

To be fair, the CIO was only on the job for 1.5 years when the ransomware hit. It's not known whether or not he had the budget for reorganizing all of the data, etc. Maybe it was on his list of priorities, but it didn't have the funding, etc, and it was pushed off until the next year. I'm not absolving him of this because backups are a first order object when you're dealing with IT, but it could be part of the reason why it wasn't implemented yet. This is the reality of working in a bureaucracy like city government.