US police department pays $750 CryptoLocker Trojan ransom demand.

[Seth1968]

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The article currently has one dumb ass user comment:

Please add $750 to your estimates of the Total Cost of 0wnership of Micro$oft Windows.

And if that comment wasn't loony enough, the police Lieutenant states, "We were never compromised".

Hmmm, expect for the tiny matter of a criminal holding you hostage and being forced to pay the ransom.

FYI- There is no known way to decrypt the files without paying the ransom.

[revelations]

Im sure there are a lot of embarrassed IT staff out there who were in charge of the backups to prevent something like this from happening.

[Seth1968]

Their IT guy is probably the Lieutenant's cousin who "fixed" a computer once. lol

[MGCM]

opps