Baltimore Officials Estimate Damage From Ransomware Attack At Over $18 Million, Likely to Rise
Early last month, hackers infected somewhere around 10,000 Baltimore, Maryland city computers with a “file-locking” ransomware variant called RobbinHood. Those hackers demanded a ransom of 13 bitcoin (at the time worth around $76,000, and today around $100,000) that would go up over time if it was not promptly paid…
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I am astonished to know that Baltimore ransomware affected 10,000 computers. The price to retrieve data is hefty too. I will urge my colleagues to be careful while venturing online so that they don’t become victims of such harmful attacks.
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