Both Baltimore city government and Baltimore County Public schools have been hacked in the past few years. No one ever said whether they paid the ransom or eventually did a workaround. Teachers who had not downloaded their files onto their own personal computers lost everything
I knew I read something about it with healthcare!
https://www.hipaajournal.com/cost-2020-us-healthcare-ransomware-attacks-21bn/
The researchers identified 92 healthcare ransomware attacks in 2020, including the attack on Blackbaud. More than 600 separate hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities were affected by those attacks, with a further 100 affected by the attack on Blackbaud. Those attacks involved the theft or exposure of the protected health information of at least 18,069,012 patients.
Ransom demands were issued ranging from $300,000 to $1.14 million, with data from Coveware indicating an average ransom demand of $169,446 in 2020. $15.6 million in ransoms were demanded from healthcare organizations in the United States in 2020, and $2,112,744 is known to have been paid to ransomware gangs in 2020. The true figure is substantially higher as many ransoms were paid but the amounts were not publicly disclosed.