Lake City, Florida, has fired the municipality's director of information technology following a ransomware attack that disabled servers, phones and email, according to an ABC News affiliate report.The firing comes after Lake City paid hackers $460,000 in ransom to decrypt the municipality's systems. The resulting decryption key has been working, according to the report. Lake City expects to fully recover its IT systems by about mid-July -- or roughly one month after the ransomware attack occurred, the report estimates.At least three Florida cities have suffered ransomware attacks in recent weeks. MSPs have also suffered similar hits, and one MSP recently paid hackers $150,000 to recover data after a ransomware attack. And in an ugly twist, some cybersecurity companies that claim to clean up ransomware are secretly paying attackers as part of their recovery services.Who is responsible for developing a backup, disaster recovery, data protection and cybersecurity plan? Who is responsible for approving, budgeting and funding such a plan? Who is responsible for testing and fine-tuning the plan? Who is accountable when the plan fails? No doubt, responsibility will vary from case to case -- especially as organizations struggle to balance business, IT and data protection priorities.June 20, 2019: Riviera Beach, Florida, discloses ransomware attack and payment. May 7, 2019: City of Baltimore hit with ransomware attack. April 2019: Cleveland Hopkins International Airport suffered a ransomware attack. April 2019: Augusta, Maine, suffered a highly targeted malware attack that froze the city’s entire network and forced the city center to close. April 2019: Hackers stole roughly $498,000 from the city of Tallahassee. March 2019: Albany, New York, suffered a ransomware attack. March 2019: Jackson County, Georgia officials paid cybercriminals $400,000 after a cyberattack shut down the county’s computer systems. March 2018: Atlanta, Georgia suffered a major ransomware attack. February 2018: Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) employee computers temporarily were shut down due to a SamSam ransomware virus cyberattack.