Post by Logan on Mar 4, 2017 3:53:33 GMT -6
Bingham County employees are able to use their work computers again — though not without a price.
Emergency dispatch officials noticed something awry Feb. 15 when they couldn’t access the county’s computer system.
Unknown hackers — likely from the Netherlands, Germany or Russia, county information technology manager Tracy Reifschneider said — attacked Bingham’s servers with ransomware.
To remove it, hackers demanded 28 Bitcoins: digital currency equivalent to about $33,000, according to Google.
Read more here: www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article135585498.html
Emergency dispatch officials noticed something awry Feb. 15 when they couldn’t access the county’s computer system.
Unknown hackers — likely from the Netherlands, Germany or Russia, county information technology manager Tracy Reifschneider said — attacked Bingham’s servers with ransomware.
To remove it, hackers demanded 28 Bitcoins: digital currency equivalent to about $33,000, according to Google.
Read more here: www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article135585498.html