{"id":56656,"date":"2017-03-17T15:52:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=56656"},"modified":"2017-03-17T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:53:41","slug":"richmond-housing-agency-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/richmond-housing-agency-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Housing Agency Loses Data After Ransomware Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richmond Housing Agency Lost a Month’s Worth of Data<\/h4>\n

The Richmond Housing Agency, in Indiana, was recently hit with a ransomware attack. \u00a0The systems were infected in on February 27, 2017. \u00a0The ransomware variant is believed to have ties back to India. \u00a0After encrypting the housing agency’s systems, hackers demanded $8,000 to restore the company’s systems. \u00a0The agency reported <\/a>they had no intentions to pay the ransom, as there are no guarantees that they would get their files back.<\/p>\n

Instead, they relocated their data to an alternative server and used their backup systems to restore what they could. \u00a0Unfortunately, the agency lost about a month’s worth of data.<\/p>\n

Ransomware Attacks<\/h4>\n

To see a full list of ransomware attacks that have taken place in 2017, you can click here<\/a>. We have also created a ransomware map, see below, of the ransomware attacks that have taken place in the U.S.
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