{"id":53661,"date":"2016-06-22T21:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=53661"},"modified":"2016-06-22T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T21:33:11","slug":"another-canadian-college-hit-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/another-canadian-college-hit-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Canadian College Hit With Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Deer College, in Alberta, Canada was the target of a recent ransomware attack&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Luckily the individual who clicked on the malicious email, quickly knew something was off and contacted the campus IT department immediately.\u00a0\u00a0According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/red-deer-college-ransomware-attack-1.3646120\">CBC News<\/a>, the school was able to isolate the issue within five minutes and avoid catastrophe.\u00a0 Fortunate for Red Deer College, no data was 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