Due to Atlanta's national importance as a transportation and economic hub, the attack received wide attention[4] and was notable for both the extent and duration of the service outages caused.
[6] On November 26, a grand jury indicted two Iranian hackers, Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri, for the attack.
Soon afterward, the city shut down many of its digital services in an attempt to control the situation, including its court system database and the wi-fi at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
[3][1] This hack was notable as it was the largest successful breach of security for a major American city by ransomware, potentially affecting up to 6 million people.
[6] Though the city declared that there was little to no evidence that personal data had been compromised, later studies show that the breach was worse than originally estimated.