**1.2 Local government cybersecurity incidents**

Local governments have been shown to be susceptible to cyberattacks. According to a 2016 report [16], 44% percent of local governments said they experience cyberattacks at least daily. It is believed that the actual rate of cyberattacks is much higher, since less than 60.1% of local governments actually catalog or count how often their systems are attacked. The magnitude of cybersecurity incidents ranges from mischievous attacks (e.g., road signs manipulation) to attacks that interrupt the daily activities of governments (e.g., infected servers that interrupt activities). The following provides a famous example of hacking into the city of Atlanta, followed by some examples of agencies affected by hacking incidents in of ITS in Southern California.
