{"id":56370,"date":"2017-02-07T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=56370"},"modified":"2017-02-07T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T15:58:00","slug":"uk-city-council-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/uk-city-council-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"UK City Council Loses Two Years Of Data After Ransomware Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Mirror<\/a>,\u00a0UK City Council located in\u00a0Tiverton has just lost two years worth of data after a town clerk, John Vanderwolfe,\u00a0clicked on a malicious attachment.\u00a0 Vanderwolfe stated <\/a>clicking on the link was a lapse in judgement.\u00a0 He said instead of populating the data he expected after clicking the link, it just came up as a bunch of “gobbledygook”.<\/p>\n

The virus spread throughout the city council’s systems, successfully encrypted two year’s worth of files.\u00a0 The ransom demand was for $3,200 USD.\u00a0 The city does not plan to pay the ransom demand, but does acknowledge it will take months to restore their data.\u00a0 The city does not have electronic backups, but does have hard copies.\u00a0 Therefore, they intend to spend the next couple months re-scanning these documents back into their systems.<\/p>\n

Luckily the financial and planning records were\u00a0not impacted by the ransomware strike.\u00a0 The city’s website is also functioning as normal.<\/p>\n

The best advice Vanderwolfe has for others is, if in doubt — don’t open it.<\/p>\n

To see a full list of ransomware attacks that have taken place so far in 2017, you can click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Mirror,\u00a0UK City Council located in\u00a0Tiverton has just lost two years worth of data after a town clerk, John Vanderwolfe,\u00a0clicked on a malicious attachment.\u00a0 Vanderwolfe stated clicking on the link was a lapse in judgement.\u00a0 He said instead of populating the data he expected after clicking the link, it just came up as a 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