Cali College Forced To Pay Hackers Thousands To Get Its Data Back
By Eric Lieberman A Los Angeles college paid hackers $28,000 to remove infected software from its computer systems after cybercriminals took the school’s data hostage. The perpetrators infiltrated the servers of the Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) and issued ransomware–a type of infected software designed to take over a computer system and then block access for the…