Two weeks ago, a California hospital paid $17,000 to cyber criminals who had broken into its computer network and taken its data hostage. The attackers used ransomware, a type of malicious software, to encrypt the files at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, and would only provide the decryption key upon payment in bitcoin of the ransom.
http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2016/02/29/paying-ransom-on-ransomware-should-be-illegal/
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