US Police Declines to Pay Bitcoin Ransom, Loses Years of Data
February 21, 2017
News, Security, Technology

Earlier this year, the office of the Cockrell Hill Police Department in Dallas was hit with a series of ransomware attacks. Data stored on local computers and servers was immediately encrypted and disabled for use indefinitely. Distributors of the ransomware requested a one-time payment worth US$4,000 in bitcoin in exchange for a decryption key to unlock the department’s data and evidences collected over the past few years. Stephen Barlag, Cockrell …
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