{"id":3622,"date":"2018-02-09T22:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T03:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2018-02-09T22:40:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T03:40:56","slug":"indiana-hospital-pays-55k-ransomware-ransom-even-though-they-had-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/2018\/02\/09\/indiana-hospital-pays-55k-ransomware-ransom-even-though-they-had-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Hospital Pays $55k Ransomware Ransom, Even Though They Had Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/hospital-pays-55k-ransomware-demand-despite-having-backups\/<\/p>\n<p>Pretty simple story here- the hospital determined that they&#8217;d rather not have the downtime while they restored their backups, so they just paid the ransom. While the decision makes sense, it&#8217;s definitely interesting to consider where the line is for many businesses. For a hospital where lives are on the line, speed will probably beat cost as long as it&#8217;s reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also interesting to think about how much your personal and work backups would be worth&#8230; It&#8217;s easy to put a number on a work backup where you know the amount of time\/cost which went into the files, but how much would your personal data be worth to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/hospital-pays-55k-ransomware-demand-despite-having-backups\/ Pretty simple story here- the hospital determined that they&#8217;d rather not have the downtime while they restored their backups, so they just paid the ransom. While the decision makes sense, it&#8217;s definitely interesting to consider where the line is for many businesses. For a hospital where lives are on the line, speed will probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[714426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-01-it-governance","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3625,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}