How hackers extorted $1.14m from a US university

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How hackers extorted $1.14m from University of California, San Francisco

A leading medical-research institution working on a cure for Covid-19 has admitted it paid hackers a $1.14m ransom after a covert negotiation witnessed by BBC News.IT staff unplugged computers in a race to stop the malware spreading.

But there is also a countdown timer ticking down to a time when the hackers either double the price of their ransom, or delete the data they have scrambled with malware. Hours later, the university came back with details of how it had procured more money and a final offer of $1,140,895. "We therefore made the difficult decision to pay some portion of the ransom, approximately $1.14 million, to the individuals behind the malware attack in exchange for a tool to unlock the encrypted data and the return of the data they obtained.

 

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