Sean Lyngaas / CNN: Sources: US car dealership software provider CDK Global appears to have paid ~$25M to hackers on June 21, after a ransomware attack shut down its systems  —  CDK Global, a software firm serving car dealerships across the US that was roiled by a cyberattack last month, appears to have paid …

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Amazing how none of these companies with tens of millions to spend on ransomware, have a fraction of those funds before to properly implement daily/weekly/monthly/cold storage backups so they can revert from those and maybe have a bit of data that needs to be manually entered again once back up.

    Even with paying there’s no guarantee they’ll even be given the decryption key.