Hollywood hospital ransoms itself back from hackers for a mere $17,000

Sometimes…

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You’ve got the right idea.

The mechanics of how exactly they evade the various sorts of attacks that might tie a payer to a payee are beyond my ken, and perhaps vary in mechanism and effectiveness from one implementation to another.

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So…do negotiate with terrorists, then?

Good point but we’ll probably never know. Bitcoin is supposed to foil AML/CTF efforts

$17K is cheaper than hiring more sysadmins or restoring everything from backup (if they exist)

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