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Los Angeles hospital paid $17,000 in Bitcoin to ransomware hackers

• viraptor 11y ago
  This article misses three very important things. 1. The IT staff really messed up by not having backups available. I wouldn't be surprised if anyone making that decision was fired now. 2. They got lucky - if the data loss was due to hardware failure / fire / flood / ..., they couldn't pay anyone. That $17k is literally the price for a real data recovery drill and they know they failed it. 3. Again, nobody mentions that people can trivially avoid this issue by using backups. (Online, offline, whatever - as long as it's not mounted as a normal filesystem)
  • chopin 11y ago
    I regularly back up to shares. I'd expect that these are not safe, either. For this very reason I do regular backups of the backup (on the NAS, which is a Linux box). These backups can only be seen as read-only share (and are not advertized).
• yitchelle 11y ago
  As an aside, Radiolab recently did a podcast on Darkode and the way Ransomware affects the lives of everyday folks. http://www.radiolab.org/story/darkode/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/darkode/ It was interesting.