Hackers demanded €750,000 from Dutch municipality in ransomware attack: report
4 years ago

Hackers demanded €750,000 from Dutch municipality in ransomware attack: report

NL Times  

A group of hackers that attacked the servers of the Overijssel municipality of Hof van Twente and took its backups for ransom, demanded 750 thousand euros from the municipality for the backups to be released, De Volkskrant reported after contact with the hackers. The attack destroyed Hof van Twente's 24 virtual servers and the backups were taken hostage. "It became clear that there are unknown third parties who have access to our systems and made the data on all of our servers inaccessible to us," a spokesperson for the municipality said at the time. The municipality and the police have not yet made contact with the hackers, according to De Volkskrant.

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NL Times  

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