San Francisco Subway Is Free To Use After Ransomware Attack, Hackers Sought Bitcoins
The holiday season is a time for shopping for gifts, spending time with family and for some, hacking into the San Francisco subway system. In fact, many, many computer systems in San Francisco were hacked this past weekend. So many, in fact, that the entire subway system has been left free to use until the computer problem is resolved. The answer will come in the form of Bitcoin, as this is what the culprits have demanded in return for putting the computer system back online. Over 2000 local computer systems affected. A strain of a computer malware, known as HDDCryptor, hit 2,112 computers....
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