[Novalug] VA Health records held ransom

[John Franklin]

Odd.  Assuming they had a decent backup system, that would mean he  
found and deleted their offline backups, too.

jf - Now with "New York MInute" stuck in his head.

On May 6, 2009, at 11:10 AM, William Sutton wrote:

> Because, if I read the SecurityFix article correctly, he said he  
> made his own encrypted backup and deleted theirs.
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>
>> On Miércoles 06 Mayo 2009 7:45:26 AM Varol Okan wrote:
>>> Come on guys, this is not funny. Who did this ? Just go and  
>>> apologize dude.
>>>
>>> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/05/1232240
>>
>> The bit that confuses me is:
>> Why should they pay him to decrypt their data? Don't they have a  
>> backup?
>>
>> --
>> Mackenzie Morgan
>> http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
>> apt-get moo
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