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uCalgary pays $20K bitcoin for email cyber ransom

Institution: University of Calgary, Ontario

Implementation Date: June 2016

uCalgary pays $20K bitcoin for email cyber ransom

Hackers encrypted staff and faculty email servers, in the midst of the FHSS Congress at UofC. A week later, the university paid the ransom in bitcoin to regain access to more than 100 affected computers.

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