{"id":53818,"date":"2016-07-20T15:07:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=53818"},"modified":"2016-07-20T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:08:45","slug":"sioux-city-explorers-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/sioux-city-explorers-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Sioux City Explorers Hit With Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware hits\u00a0the Sioux City Explorers, a\u00a0minor league baseball team, in an unexpected way&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Until the 2016 season, the Sioux City Explorers had a rather dated scoreboard.\u00a0 You know, the ones that require people to actually change the numbers?\u00a0 Well this season a local hospital sponsored a major upgrade.\u00a0 A new scoreboard was installed and it\u00a0was great, until ransomware hit.\u00a0 The scoreboard has not been able to run at full capacity since last Friday, as one of the computers that works the system has been infected with ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>At this time it is unknown what the ransom demands are, or if the organization intends to pay the ransom amount in order to get their systems up and running at normal capacity.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxlandnews.com\/news\/local\/explorers-new-scoreboard-gets-hacked\">KMEG 14<\/a>, it is the organization&#8217;s hopes to have the board fully functional by the team&#8217;s next home game on July 30, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware hits\u00a0the Sioux City Explorers, a\u00a0minor league baseball team, in an unexpected way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":53819,"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],"tags":[4363],"class_list":["post-53818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ransomware","category-ransomware-reports","tag-ransomware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sioux City Explorers Hit With Ransomware<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Sioux City Explorers experienced a major upgrade this season; 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