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I used to work for a city and had the demand been something reasonable to the size of the city (tens of thousands of dollars) they may have just paid it. The ci
by SOLAR_FIELDS 7y ago
I used to work for a city and had the demand been something reasonable to the size of the city (tens of thousands of dollars) they may have just paid it. The city I worked for had pretty good backups in place but still might have even done it to not lose a few days worth of work. FWIW the city I worked for was a suburban city with a population of about 80k
- VectorLock 7y agoThe city was ready to pay $400k. Or their insurance was, at least. Insurance was looking at it from the coldest perspective possible-- how much would it cost us to fix this otherwise?
- msmerberry 7y agoYup that's what I came here to say. It might have been easier to take a higher insurance premium and let it pay the ransom than to do a restore exercise. Either way, bravo.
- VectorLock 7y agoThere is of course the terrible secondary effect of encouraging more ransomware but the insurance companies can simply sidestep this by saying "we don't cover that."