Recently one of my clients, let’s call him Mr. X, had a ransomware attack and he had to pay 6 Bitcoins (around $4000 at the time) to get his data files un-encrypted and returned to him by the hacker who extorted him.
Ransomware spread mainly through spam e-mail and immediately infected one of Attorney X’s computers and encrypted the files stored there.
Mr. X couldn’t access the data. He had to eventually pay the attacker to get his data files back. Its a terrible story but in the interest of my attorney clients and attorneys on my list and the public at large, I’ve interviewed Mr. X so people can learn how to protect themselves from ransomware.
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