San Francisco Metro System Hacked with Ransomware [Paid $70,000 in Bitcoin]

[cpfreeplz]

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were from America. You're response is perfectly understandable then.

I loves amuricuh where the moto is if it ain't deep fried I ain't not throwing that down my gullet uhhhhhyuckhyuck. Pass the *belch* beer kay hun? I can't get up OUTTA my lazyboy when Springer's on. You know that. or something similar.
But seriously wtf. Ya let's have a real life purge right? That should resolve everything.

[KennyR]

Everything has a negative side for which we can't completely ignore it. During the initial days as a value storage coin bitcoin was used much for illegal needs. Later on continued development has made it a high growing investment. So some using it on illegal needs will get into trap soon on improved security advancements.

[ebliever]

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were from America. You're response is perfectly understandable then.

Ironically, you match my perception of the average American pretty closely, speaking as an anti-American dissident.

I'm sure you value reason as much as the next person, so I would remind you that tactics like your photo are the tactics of someone who has lost, and is now trying to use emotion and irrationality to change/avoid the subject. Ironically there was no reason to do so, as I'd conceded my error in the first place.

[SmartIphone]

I have updated the OP with some useful links where is helpful for everybody.
It's good to use an app like RansomFree to protect our PC(s) from ransomwares because it's really dangerous this kind of virus.

[elvizzzzzzz]

I don't understand why people would get so upset when ransomware happens,
as this really isn't very different from a hard drive failure, for example.

Also 10 seconds on google gets you links like this:
http://betanews.com/2016/04/27/remove-cryptxxx-ransomware/

and even if you cant decrypt your files now, there will likely be solutions
within a year.

But you cannot fix stupid.

[raja2sumi]

70000 dollars is a huge money ,and there s a huge possibilty that i tmight again get hacked and u will cry over again.

[bryant.coleman]

70000 dollars is a huge money ,and there s a huge possibilty that i tmight again get hacked and u will cry over again.

Hopefully, now they have learnt their lesson, and will be taking the adequate precautions. Either they should employ an IT security agent, or they should outsource this work to some agency which is good in providing security against these sort of crimes. That said, I am glad that Bitcoin received a nice amount of publicity as a result of this hack.

[eternalgloom]

I have updated the OP with some useful links where is helpful for everybody.
It's good to use an app like RansomFree to protect our PC(s) from ransomwares because it's really dangerous this kind of virus.

I guess it's good that tools like this exist for regular users who are more prone to falling victim to ransomware, but it's quite easy to protect yourself from it without having to use any tools.

1. Don't just download and open files from untrusted sources.
2. Add Noscript and uBlock to your browser and make sure you disable all external plugins like Flash and Java.

By following these simple rules the chances of getting infected should be absolutely minimal.

[Mometaskers]

70000 dollars is a huge money ,and there s a huge possibilty that i tmight again get hacked and u will cry over again.

Hopefully, now they have learnt their lesson, and will be taking the adequate precautions. Either they should employ an IT security agent, or they should outsource this work to some agency which is good in providing security against these sort of crimes. That said, I am glad that Bitcoin received a nice amount of publicity as a result of this hack.

Well, not good publicity but it's publicity nonetheless. Being just a new bitcoin user I've notice that anonymity is both bitcoin's good and bad trait. Hopefully next time hacking incidents happen they don't blame it on bitcoin coz it's very easy to put blame on things you can't understand.

[QuestionAuthority]

70000 dollars is a huge money ,and there s a huge possibilty that i tmight again get hacked and u will cry over again.

$70k is huge money? That's less than I paid for my Mercedes. They couldn't even buy my car for their ransom.

[SmartIphone]

I have updated the OP with some useful links where is helpful for everybody.
It's good to use an app like RansomFree to protect our PC(s) from ransomwares because it's really dangerous this kind of virus.

I guess it's good that tools like this exist for regular users who are more prone to falling victim to ransomware, but it's quite easy to protect yourself from it without having to use any tools.

1. Don't just download and open files from untrusted sources.
2. Add Noscript and uBlock to your browser and make sure you disable all external plugins like Flash and Java.

By following these simple rules the chances of getting infected should be absolutely minimal.

Simply when you are looking something and you don't think about the consequences then this happened.
Because if we look for a patch/crack then this can probably happen and we disable the antivirus to install the keygen