The small department adds one more to the list of police departments that have agreed to pay a ransom to regain access to their files, following similar events in Midlothian, Ill., and Swansea, Mass. Other police departments, like those in Durham, N.H., and Detroit categorically refused to pay.
What “last resort” did a police department in a Boston suburb resort to?
Answer: paying a bitcoin ransom
Locked out of the agency's computer systems by a CryptoLocker infestation, the chief of the Tewksbury Police Department told the local paper that he had run out of options -- paying a $500 ransom via bitcoin was the department’s last resort.
The small department adds one more to the list of police departments that have agreed to pay a ransom to regain access to their files, following similar events in Midlothian, Ill., and Swansea, Mass. Other police departments, like those in Durham, N.H., and Detroit categorically refused to pay.
The small department adds one more to the list of police departments that have agreed to pay a ransom to regain access to their files, following similar events in Midlothian, Ill., and Swansea, Mass. Other police departments, like those in Durham, N.H., and Detroit categorically refused to pay.
