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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1942467" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>Indeed. But just to show you how lucrative this CAN be. A similar phishing/social engineering attack was performed on an IT individual at a large healthcare switch in the US in Feb/March. They were able to get credentials which allowed them to get access to various internal systems and eventually access to pretty much all the data. </p><p></p><p>The culprits managed to download about 6 TB of data and then immediately sent a ransom request to the company. The company then switched off their entire system putting the a portion of the US healthcare system in chaos with no announcement. They were down from that particular outage for nearly 3 weeks.</p><p></p><p>At the end, they slowly began to come back up and then news about them having paid around $22 million to the ransomware group became public. Well, there being no honor between thieves, the attack was performed by 2 groups. Group 1 got the money, but didn't share with group 2. Group 2 also has the data and is now ransoming the company for their own payday. The company will have no choice but to pay and not deal with another outage, so this is quite an expensive hit for the company because an employee got lax..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1942467, member: 110816"] Indeed. But just to show you how lucrative this CAN be. A similar phishing/social engineering attack was performed on an IT individual at a large healthcare switch in the US in Feb/March. They were able to get credentials which allowed them to get access to various internal systems and eventually access to pretty much all the data. The culprits managed to download about 6 TB of data and then immediately sent a ransom request to the company. The company then switched off their entire system putting the a portion of the US healthcare system in chaos with no announcement. They were down from that particular outage for nearly 3 weeks. At the end, they slowly began to come back up and then news about them having paid around $22 million to the ransomware group became public. Well, there being no honor between thieves, the attack was performed by 2 groups. Group 1 got the money, but didn't share with group 2. Group 2 also has the data and is now ransoming the company for their own payday. The company will have no choice but to pay and not deal with another outage, so this is quite an expensive hit for the company because an employee got lax.. [/QUOTE]
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