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The ransom was not paid, to the best of my knowledge, indirectly via a contractor as you stated or directly. https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0520/1222857-hse-week
by paradaux 5y ago
The ransom was not paid, to the best of my knowledge, indirectly via a contractor as you stated or directly.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0520/1222857-hse-weekly-briefing/ https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0520/1222857-hse-weekly-briefin...
This is the government-funded news media organisation, akin to the BBC here — but I have sufficient trust that they didn't
- Xelbair 5y agoYeah looks like they did gave them the decryption tool. I just know quite a lot of cases where non-health related systems were hit with ransomware over here, and that was the route they took to recover the data.