Officials at the University of Calgary admitted they paid $20,000 CDN this week to rid its system of ransomware that hampered productivity for 10 days. The school began experiencing what it called system issues on May 28 and warned students not to use any U. Calgary-issued computers and not to connect classroom computers to the school network. It s unclear exactly what type of ransomware hit the school it only claimed it was software intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems The school is still in the process of assessing and evaluating decryption keys.
Source: https://threatpost.com/university-of-calgary-pays-20k-following-ransomware-attack/118562/