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West Virginia

pangaia

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4. But I mean,

Reply to Canoe52 (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 30, 2017, 12:06 PM

Jun 2017

Somebody is dumb enough to actually BELIEVE it is possible to safely pay a ransom, and that then everything will be ...okay dokey?

Especially somebody running a hospital computer system?

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Cyberattack Forces West Virginia Hospital to Scrap Computers [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2017 OP

They actually thought they could pay a ransom? pangaia Jun 2017 #1

That's what some hackers do, shut down Canoe52 Jun 2017 #3

But I mean, pangaia Jun 2017 #4

For the hackers behind this week's global cyberattack, the mission was pain, not profit mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2017 #2