Security News > 2017 > June > Web Hosting Company Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Hackers to Get Files Back (The Hackers News)
2017-06-19 12:43
South Korean web hosting provider has agreed to pay $1 million in bitcoins to hackers after a Linux ransomware infected its 153 servers, encrypting 3,400 business websites and their data, hosted on them. According to a blog post published by NAYANA, the web hosting company, this unfortunate event happened on 10th June when ransomware malware hit its hosting servers and attacker demanded 550
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