- May 4, 2019
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The University of Utah revealed today that it paid a ransomware gang $457,059 in order to avoid having hackers leak student information online.
The incident is the latest in a long string of ransomware attacks where criminal groups steal sensitive files from the hacked companies before encrypting their files; and in case victims
University of Utah pays $457,000 to ransomware gang
University officials restored from backups, but they had to pay the ransomware gang to prevent them from leaking student data.
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