Ransomware: City of Detroit didn’t pay, TN sheriff’s office did pay to decrypt

Detroit’s entire city database was encrypted and held for a ransom of 2,000 bitcoins worth about $800,000. The city is now in the early stages of ramping up improving security and updating technologies. University of Delaware IT director urges students and employees to follow safe computing practices like backing up files, checking links and attachments, and updating software. Sheriffs Office in Dickinson, Tennessee, was hit by CryptoWall, and chose to pay the ransom of $500something experts say never to do.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2850052/ransomware-city-of-detroit-didnt-pay-tn-sheriffs-office-did-pay-to-decrypt.html