{"id":53355,"date":"2016-05-17T15:48:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=53355"},"modified":"2016-05-17T15:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:48:14","slug":"dog-shelter-targeted-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/dog-shelter-targeted-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Shelter Targeted By Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian dog shelter targeted by ransomware still cannot access files&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a pet shelter in Canada was hit with ransomware.\u00a0 Sharon McKeil <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/ransomware-hack-bark-charity-virus-1.3585039\">reported <\/a>all of her historical data for her dog shelter, which is ran out of her home, is encrypted.\u00a0 A ransom of $1,500 is being demanded.\u00a0 Currently, the shelter&#8217;s website is back up and running so operations can continue; however her data remains encrypted.\u00a0 Sharon is not certain if she will end up paying the ransom.\u00a0 Police reported there is minimal they can do in these instances, as the ransomware originates overseas and is difficult, if not impossible to trace.<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of ransomware attacks this year, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/06\/53032-ransomware-attacks-of-2016\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian dog shelter targeted by ransomware still cannot access files&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":53356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4949,4944,5000],"tags":[4363],"class_list":["post-53355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ransomware","category-ransomware-reports","category-ransomwarewar","tag-ransomware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dog Shelter Targeted By Ransomware<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Earlier this month, a Canadian dog shelter was targeted by ransomware. 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