Help

BI’s Article search uses Boolean search capabilities. If you are not familiar with these principles, here are some quick tips.

To search specifically for more than one word, put the search term in quotation marks. For example, “workers compensation”. This will limit your search to that combination of words.

To search for a combination of terms, use quotations and the & symbol. For example, “hurricane” & “loss”.

Login Register Subscribe

University pays hackers $15,706 in bitcoins following ransomware attack

Reprints

Canada's University of Calgary has paid $20,000 Canadian ($15,706) in bitcoins to hackers to restore access to data following a ransomware attack, reported BBC News.

The University of Calgary said that more than 100 of its computers had been hit by the malware since it was attacked in May. The malware caused emails and other files to become encrypted.

Read more