UPDATE: Maple Leaf Foods has confirmed it was hit by ransomware, and that it won’t pay for the return of stolen data. The Black Basta ransomware gang now lists Canadian meat processor Maple Leaf Foods as one of its victims. It isn’t clear but this could be related to the […]
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Big data trove dumped after LA Unified School District says no to ransomware crooks
A ransomware outfit calling itself Vice Society has dumped nearly 300,000 files belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District as punishment for rebuffing demands it pay the group a hefty fee to recover data stolen during a recent cyber intrusion. Ransomware operators breach targets’ networks, encrypt all their data, […]