[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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