HIGH-TECH The hacker has encrypted all of the data would have demanded 100 bitcoins, is about 73,000 dollars…
The SFMTA, the company in charge of public transport in San Francisco (California), has been a victim of hacking on Friday night. The message “You have been hacked, all data is encrypted” has appeared on more than 2,000 computers in a network that consists of exactly 8.656.
” We open the portals as a precaution “
Then the transport company, otherwise called Muni, is the seventh-largest public transport company in the United States, that piracy has enabled the users to travel free of charge between Friday evening and Saturday morning.
” We open the portals as a precaution, to minimise the impact on customers “, confirmed a spokesman With the Guardian, explaining that the machines selling tickets were also out of service.
The Muni does not currently release information about the nature of the piracy. Always is it that the local media refer, to them, the track of the ransomware, the software of racketeering that is to encrypt data until the victim agrees to pay a ransom to unlock them.
The hacker said to make ” it for the money, and nothing else. “
It must be said that the message delivered by the pirates 2.0 contained, according to The examiner, an e-mail address. Contacted by the newspaper, the owner responded to ” do it for money, and nothing else “. It would have also explained that an employee of the Muni only had to download the malicious software to reach the whole system of the governance of transport. The hacker would have demanded 100 bitcoins, or about 73,000 dollars.
For its part, according to the american media, the transportation company made it known that she had refused all payment of ransom, adding that the servers referencing their data had been spared by the attack. Starting Sunday morning, all of the information that had been largely redeployed across the network.
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