On September 16th, San Ysidro School District of California was hit with a ransomware attack.\u00a0 The ransomware impacted emails from August through the middle of September, as well as select computer files.\u00a0 After encryption, an automated message was sent to the district demanding $19,000 to restore the emails and files.\u00a0 Fortunately, all of the encrypted data was backed up.\u00a0 Therefore San Ysidro School District was able to return their systems back to normal without having to pay the hackers, and they didn’t lose any data.<\/p>\n
To see a full list of ransomware attacks that have taken place this year, 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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