After a hacker attack, the Californian University has paid a 1.14 million dollars ransom to the hacker in order to get back all the university’s data that were taken from the cybercriminals at the beginning of June.
As written into Bloomeberg, by using the famous malware Netwalker the hacker have cryptographed datas on the saver inside of the medicine faculty. Even if the University with headquarters in San Francisco (USA) was engaged into some coronavirus test, the attack has not stopped the scientists work, even if than the final decision was to pay the ransom and make it known in a press release:
“the data that were cryptographed are important for some university activities that we are doing like a public service University in order to fight against Covid-19. We have taken the decision to pay a part of the ransom”
Actually, the expert team is working in order to get back as soon as possible our server that was the object of the hacker attack.
The break-in happened on 1 June, and even if the University has affirmed that the hacker has been imprisoned, they reached a negotiation and finally have convinced the University to pay the ransom.
After the payment, the University has declared to get a decryption key in order to get back the file access and the stolen file copies.
It also has refused to say what was the content of this file for a value of more than 1 million dollars, by stating that no health data was ransomware hostage.
SOURCE: FEDERPRIVACY
