On 8/21/20 7:36 PM, Dayne Goodwin wrote:
University of Utah pays more than $450,000 in ransomware attack on its computers
by Scott D. Pierce, Salt Lake Tribune, August 21
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/08/21/university-utah-pays-more/
The University of Utah paid extortionists almost half a million
dollars after a ransomware attack on some of its computer servers, and
is now telling students, staff and faculty to change their university
passwords.
According to a statement issued by the university, it paid $457,059.24
to an “unknown entity” that hacked the College of Social and
Behavioral Science servers on July 19, rendering them “temporarily
inaccessible.”
For what it's worth, Marxmail at U. of Utah is still down. Who knows if
it or any other mailing lists will ever come back. Frankly, this
disaster had unintended benefits. We always thought that being housed
there would relieve us of the chores of maintaining Marxmail by having
their IT doing backups, etc. The new location puts us in the driver's
seat on a much more stable environment, plus the archives are searchable.
Les and I have to figure out a way to get the U. of Utah archives back
online. Not sure if that will be possible but we'll do our damnest.
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