US School Agrees To Pay $8,500 To Get Rid Of Ransomware (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this week, the media was abuzz with the case of the Hollywood hospital that almost shut down its operations because of a ransomware infection, which it eventually paid. Something similar happened around the same time in a South Carolina school district when ransomware shut down an elementary school's servers. The school had to pay $8,500.

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Re:Is this what we want to be teaching?

[hort_wort]

Do we really want to be teaching children to negotiate with terrorists?

The obvious way around that is to stop calling everyone who breathes a "terrorist".

Re: TCO?

[guruevi]

$8500 is cheaper than paying a decent SysAdmin. These criminals know at what point to price their services so that these institutions can continue putting their clients at risk.