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by:Juana Villa
WOW!!!!
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by:William Fulks
I hate to hear stuff like this. All it does is encourage the ransomware creators to keep going.
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by:Kyle Santos
Agreed William.  Backups are so important.
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by:Lucas Bishop
Guess it was easier for them to pay $1M than restore 153 servers from backup? I'd think if they have $1M, they'd have backups? Sheesh.

In related news, Coinbase is shutting down the accounts of people who pay ransoms:
http://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-white-hat-hacker-dont-want-bitcoin/
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by:Nicholas
Old news and was already posted less than a day ago
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by:Mahima Gupta
why to pay 1 Million, if you can do the same thing in a very less bucks..  http://bit.ly/2rJTnVj
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