[Novalug] VA Health records held ransom
The Doctor
drwho@virtadpt.net
Fri May 8 10:07:56 EDT 2009
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William Sutton wrote:
> - if the systems were actually compromised (and if so, how) (although if
> the FBI is involved, I would say it sounds probable)
It is possible - if you do a search on the website in question the third
result is a URL to the login page.
When I checked yesterday that web server was still offline.
> - where the extortionist is storing his copy of the data
Could be anywhere you could hide up to a terabyte of data.
> And even if they get one copy of the backup, that doesn't guarantee that
> he doesn't keep multiple copies and try it again.
Exactly.
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