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California university pays $1.14M in Bitcoin after ransomware attack
- Barrin92 6y agoWhy do the universities not have offline backups? In particular for medical research data, it seems like a complete disaster that someone can just hack their systems and apparently make enough data inaccessible to get them to pay ransom.
- foxyv 6y agoA lot of departments aren't run like a big corporation. It's more like a startup in someone's garage. A lot of our physics labs were just a room with a laser in it. Or even better, a room with a lot of radioactive stuff in it and scary signs outside it. A lot of corners get cut and IT is the first. Usually the IT is run by a grad student on some laptop they bought at the bookstore or cobbled together Raspberry Pis.
- IXxXI 6y agoWill it turn into a case of universities laundering money under false pretenses.
- qserasera 6y agoI hope someone is running statistics on these thefts. We should name and shame those that pay.