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UCSF hacked. Had to pay $1.2 million in ransom.

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2020/06/30 13:46:03 (permalink)
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53214783

UC San Francisco was hit with ransomware and their data got locked. It cost them ~$1.2 mil to get the data back.

Folks... THIS is why you do offline nightly backups... or even HOURLY depending on how vital your data is.

There are tons of unhackable data drives that can open and close a port at set times to backup data. It is worth the investment.

I used to mine. Now I compute.
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    Re: UCSF hacked. Had to pay $1.2 million in ransom. 2020/06/30 13:59:38 (permalink)
    Locks keep honest people honest. There needs to be repercussions for the people who do electronic robbery, or they'll keep on doing it.

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    Re: UCSF hacked. Had to pay $1.2 million in ransom. 2020/06/30 15:40:53 (permalink)
    Everything I have is in RAID.  I'm good.

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    Re: UCSF hacked. Had to pay $1.2 million in ransom. 2020/06/30 18:53:04 (permalink)
    For $1.2M Id be paying hackers or hackers and tell em have fun, just leave my name out of it and watch the horsecrap fly.... With a big azz smile on my face
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    Re: UCSF hacked. Had to pay $1.2 million in ransom. 2020/07/01 07:03:05 (permalink)
    And to think, these are the same universities training the next batch of IT admins and cybersecurity admins.   Educational institutions in the US have had problems for decades, but nothing seems to be done about it. I can't count the number of times my local community college was hacked after they centralized their IT website and front-end services. 


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    Re: UCSF hacked. Had to pay $1.2 million in ransom. 2020/07/01 09:24:10 (permalink)
    kougar
    And to think, these are the same universities training the next batch of IT admins and cybersecurity admins.   Educational institutions in the US have had problems for decades, but nothing seems to be done about it. I can't count the number of times my local community college was hacked after they centralized their IT website and front-end services. 




    It's a medical school dude...



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