While Atlanta, Georgia, knew to expect rain this weekend, they couldn’t have predicted the stream of hackers attacking their governmental computers.

The hackers have managed to shut down key computers across the city and are asking for $51,000 USD worth of Bitcoin to reverse their work and re-correct the systems.

In a statement from the city, it was admitted that their computers are “currently experiencing outages on various customer-facing applications, including some that customers may use to pay bills or access court-related information.”

The city’s mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, held a press conference concerning the security breach and admitted on Thursday that she “[doesn’t] know the extent of the attack.” Richard Cox, the city’s almost-brand-new Chief Operating Officer, offered solace that the city itself was safe and that public safety, water, and air operations had not been affected by the attack.

At the time of press, the matter is still to be remedied. The FBI, the US Department of Homeland Security, and Microsoft have all joined to assess the situation and discover the magnitude of the breach to work together to resolve it.

Citizens have been warned to monitor all personal information and accounts, and suspected that there might be a compromise of the security of personal information in the hack.

Hacks geared to gain Bitcoin or other cryptos certainly isn’t new in the domain of digital currencies. We’ve seen the vulnerability of cryptoexchanges, mining markets, and even companies such as Tesla and this is not the first time that cybercriminals would opt to attack a municipal system. In November last year, Mecklenburg county in North Carolina was victim in a similar situation and officials refused to pay the ransom to release the computers.

Whether or not the city chooses to pay the hacker, we can only hope that cybercriminal attacks don’t start to become a common feature in headlines of cryptocurrency.

We’ll update this story as news develops.