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title: "Hopefully, attacks like this will lead to greater social acceptance…"
date: 2020-08-21
source: facebook
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# Hopefully, attacks like this will lead to greater social acceptance…

*August 21, 2020 · Facebook*

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[https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-utah-pays-457000-to-ransomware-gang/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-utah-pays-457000-to-ransomware-gang/){target="_blank"}
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Hopefully, attacks like this will lead to greater social acceptance of refusal of routine data collection.\
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\"The University of Utah revealed today that it paid a ransomware gang \$457,059 in order to avoid having hackers leak student information online.\
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The incident is the latest in a long string of ransomware attacks where criminal groups steal sensitive files from the hacked companies before encrypting their files; and in case victims refuse to pay, threaten to release the stolen documents as a second extortion scheme.\"\
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[https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-utah-pays-457000-to-ransomware-gang/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-utah-pays-457000-to-ransomware-gang/){target="_blank"}
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