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

Posted by BeauHD on from the held-hostage dept.

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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  1. Re:Is this what we want to be teaching? by hort_wort · · Score: 5, Informative

    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".