Sunday, July 26, 2020

Medical school pays computer hackers $1.4 million in bitcoin to return stolen data

A major California medical school was forced to shell out $1.4 million in bitcoin to computer hackers. On June 1, the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine experienced a ransomware attack on several of its computer servers. This attack encrypted the data on the affected servers and made their contents inaccessible to anyone without the correct tool to unlock them.

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