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L.A. Hospital Pays Off Ransomware Thieves To Reclaim Its Network (google.com)
Los Angeles' Presbyterian Medical Center, the target of a successful ransomware attack (successful from the thieves' point of view, that is) has buckled under: to regain control of its network, the hospital has paid a 40-bitcoin ransom (about $17,000) to the gang responsible. That, at least, is a far cry from the much higher ransom widely reported to have been initially demanded: 9,000 bitcoin. (That would have meant a payment of $3.6-3.9 million.)
They fed the trolls.
Table-ized A.I.
Of course, this does assume that the ransomers won't come back and ask for more money next week.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Or that the theives didn't already download a ton of patient data off their machines which since they accepted such low amount from what they wanted sounds like they got enough info to make a ton of $ off identity theft.