{"id":805,"date":"2017-09-25T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2017\/09\/25\/1-local-government-paying-ransom-on-ransomware-hack\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T21:58:00","slug":"1-local-government-paying-ransom-on-ransomware-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/1-local-government-paying-ransom-on-ransomware-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"+1 Local Government Paying Ransom on Ransomware Hack."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local government: Montgomery Co. Maryland<\/p>\n<p>The hackers demanded: 9 bitcoins, valued at between\u00a0$40,000 and $50,000<\/p>\n<p>Other local governmetns have been able to retrieve data from back up and not pay the ransom, was that tried? Yes, but for reasons unrelated to the hack the backup was not a viable option<\/p>\n<p>What was the value of the data to the county? $5 million<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/news\/2017\/09\/25\/montgomery-county-pays-ransom-gets-data-back\/699876001\/\">Montgomery Advertiser \u00a0|\u00a0Montgomery County pays ransom, gets data back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local government: Montgomery Co. Maryland<\/p>\n<p>The hackers demanded: 9 bitcoins, valued at between\u00a0$40,000 and $50,000<\/p>\n<p>Other local governmetns have been able to retrieve data from back up and not pay the ransom, was that tried? Yes, but for reasons unrelated to the hack the backup was not a viable option<\/p>\n<p>What was the value of the data to the county? $5 million<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/news\/2017\/09\/25\/montgomery-county-pays-ransom-gets-data-back\/699876001\/\">Montgomery Advertiser \u00a0|\u00a0Montgomery County pays ransom, gets data back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}