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Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack

From Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net>
Newsgroups alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack
Date 2019-07-27 22:13 -0400
Organization NewsGuy.com
Message-ID <qhj0ct0hn4@news1.newsguy.com> (permalink)
References <6c7db3c7f7e36aa8ea07eebb12bf54bc@dizum.com>

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On 7/6/19 4:36 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> A Florida city reportedly has fired one of its top tech 
> employees after officials were forced to pay $460,000 in ransom 
> to the hackers behind a cyber attack that disabled its servers, 
> phones and email accounts.

A friend of mine worked for a social services agency of our local
government many years ago. Some genius had the database of all the
necessary data in a single IBM IMS/DB IMS/DC system to handle all the
data of the entire state. At one point, they installed an update which
failed, and all the data were lost. My friend complained that all the
employees had to work nights and weekends to re-enter the previous
month's data transactions. During the daytime, they tried to serve their
customers (welfare, mostly).

I suggested that they just restore everything from the most recent
backup and then apply the updates from the journal tapes. (This was back
in the days of magnetic tape). I explained all this to my friend who
inquired as to why they were not doing this. It turns out that the
genius had turned off the backups because they took too much time and
they needed someone to change the tapes. So he saved a little money that
way.

But the welfare clients could not get their checks that month, many got
 evicted from their welfare hotels, and had problems paying for food and
medications. I very much doubt the genius got fired.

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Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2019-07-06 10:36 +0200
  Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2019-07-27 22:13 -0400
    Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack POSHLYAK <POSHLYAK@localmail.com> - 2019-07-28 02:22 +0000
      Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Keith Nuttle <Keith_Nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-07-27 22:50 -0400
      Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Snowden" <Edmail@fromrussiawithlove.net> - 2019-07-28 08:49 -0500
        Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-28 08:50 -0500
          Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-28 16:30 +0200
            Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-28 23:50 +0100
              Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-07-29 01:37 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-29 03:01 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-07-29 11:33 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-29 11:58 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2019-07-29 08:12 -0300
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 13:27 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "anonymous" <anonymous@rip.ax.lt> - 2019-07-29 07:04 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2019-07-29 13:34 +0000
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:45 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 09:31 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 20:54 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2019-07-30 10:42 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2019-07-30 10:40 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-07-29 08:21 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:47 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:03 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 12:58 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 06:59 -0500
              Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2019-07-28 23:52 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-29 12:11 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-29 15:34 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-30 00:00 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-30 02:30 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-30 11:57 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-30 16:18 +0000
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2019-07-30 13:12 +0000
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-30 15:02 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-31 12:52 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-31 14:59 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-30 00:35 +0000
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-30 02:26 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-30 15:08 -0400
              Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 06:57 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-07-29 07:58 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 07:08 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-07-29 08:13 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:48 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2019-07-29 08:32 -0700
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <nobody@mixmin.net> - 2019-07-29 11:12 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2019-07-29 09:50 -0700
        Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Chuck Rhode <CRhode@LacusVeris.com> - 2019-07-28 11:18 -0500
    Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:36 +0000

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