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Los Angeles Valley College pays $28,000 in bitcoin ransom to hackers
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Jan 12, 2017 01:11 AM
Don't try it in your own school.

Link to the article :
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...story.html
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Jan 12, 2017 01:13 AM
ROFL, some kid which studies there probably did it, which is the worse thing about this.
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Jan 12, 2017 10:12 AM
That news made my day. Completely unexpected that a school has so much money to waste.
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Jan 12, 2017 10:14 AM
"No FAFSA? Bet!"

This is gold 🤣
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Jan 12, 2017 10:17 AM
Couldn't they just reformat their systems? Damn idiots
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Jan 12, 2017 10:18 AM
Damn..... Probably their own students too lmao
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Jan 12, 2017 12:23 PM
Thanks for the read I used this in my security class for an article lol
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Jan 12, 2017 12:27 PM
Still wondering how do they manage to infect EVERY computers in a school (even those who have backups and shit)
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Jan 12, 2017 12:31 PM
(Jan 12, 2017 12:27 PM)TheMockingBird Wrote:  Still wondering how do they manage to infect EVERY computers in a school (even those who have backups and shit)

They infected their servers I'm pretty sure which has all the data for school records and grades and shit.
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Jan 12, 2017 12:48 PM
Man that's crazy. I can't imagine the thought process of the school administrators. Like.."How are we going to get 28k in crypto-currency"? And damn, the hackers that pulled this off, mad skill. And I do wonder how the school had that chunk of change laying around. Awesome share OP.
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Jan 12, 2017 12:52 PM
Lmao I like how they just blame it on the Europeans xd.
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Jan 12, 2017 12:53 PM
(Jan 12, 2017 12:48 PM)Korvo Wrote:  Man that's crazy. I can't imagine the thought process of the school administrators. Like.."How are we going to get 28k in crypto-currency"? And damn, the hackers that pulled this off, mad skill. And I do wonder how the school had that chunk of change laying around. Awesome share OP.

$28k is practically pennies for a decent sized school. $20 million is a pretty small annual budget for a public school system.
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Jan 12, 2017 12:59 PM
This is absolutely crazy.
In regard to paying in BTC - is there absolutely no way the police department or sheriff could get the money back? Or is there simply no connection or correlation between Bitcoin and people themselves.. (e.g detectives, police, fraud departments).
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Jan 12, 2017 01:04 PM
(Jan 12, 2017 12:52 PM)Zexo Wrote:  Lmao I like how they just blame it on the Europeans xd.

Apparently this was at more than one school and other places like hospitals. People have the issue with the same hackers all the time
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Jan 12, 2017 01:14 PM (This post was last modified: Jan 12, 2017 01:15 PM by Hakai.)
Damn europeans hacking skills 🤝
they'll get usa down

i bet it's someone from the university though.
Who would do that otherwise.
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