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Ransomware Gang Leaks Data Allegedly Stolen from Florida Department of Health

• toomuchtodo 2y ago
  Florida's Cyber Security Act prohibits paying or otherwise complying with a ransomware demand. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0200-0299/0282/Sections/0282.318.html http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ... (canonical legislation reference) https://web.archive.org/web/20240222015607/http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0200-0299/0282/Sections/0282.318.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240222015607/http://www.leg.st... (wayback for https)
  • parhamn 2y ago
    Thats really interesting. If everyone did this, what would happen to the market for these?
    • dwighttk 2y ago
      They could probably pull out some info and talk to the rich patients about a payment
    • toomuchtodo 2y ago
      Some targets will likely still pay (assuming legal risk versus potential total loss of the enterprise), others will experience disruption or destruction, because the evidence is clear (broadly speaking) no one is interested in putting the controls in place for effective security (insert last six months of breaches and ransomeware attacks here). My concern with government breaches is you have no control over their security, and they cannot go out of business, so your data is at the whim of whatever part of the gov you're forced to submit data to and who is storing and processing that data.
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