{"id":53675,"date":"2016-06-27T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=53675"},"modified":"2016-06-27T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T16:23:15","slug":"ransomware-hits-nascar-full-throttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/ransomware-hits-nascar-full-throttle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Hits NASCAR Full Throttle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware attacked a racing company\u00a0earlier this week, right before NASCAR race day&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/06\/24\/nascar_team_redflagged_by_ransomware_attack\/\">The Register<\/a>, Leavine Family Racing has admitted to paying a ransom to recover data that was infected with TrueCrypt\u00a0ransomware earlier this week.\u00a0 It is reported that without access to the encrypted data, the company could&#8217;ve lost millions of dollars.\u00a0 The information encrypted 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