Ransomware 2020

[Octavious]

Company got hacked over the weekend. Apparently our IT has no idea what they are doing as the backups were easily accessible as well and it looks like we lost a shitton of data.

Essentially our entire network folder where we store documents for the last 9 billions years was encrypted along with any backups....So ya...

[Paingod]

Fucking ouch.

The company has three options.

1. Pay the ransom.
2. Hope someone can overcome it; some forms of ransomware are escapable, at a cost to the right vendor.
3. Try and stagger through it and piece their lives back together.

Option 3 has about a 90% failure rate for businesses within 5 years - as in they never really recover and finally shut down. Option 2 is painful and may not be possible. Option 1 might only be done after involving the FBI.

Good lucks. I hope they're willing to fund their IT department a little better after this. In my experience, a failure like this is often because management declined to properly fund the department so they had the tools they needed and expected them to "make it work" with bubblegum and duct tape, not actual negligence. Could still be negligence, but I'm less inclined to make it my first guess.

[Octavious]

Well our client data is in amazon so we didn't lose that. It's all internal documents. So zi guess it could be worse?

[Paingod]

I suppose it depends on the failure tolerance of the company.

Client data is one thing, and may be 90% of what's important - but what about bookkeeping, personnel, performance reviews, archived reporting, accountability and emails ...

[Octavious]

Ya I don't think we know the scope of it yet. Not that they would share that information with me. I'm worried about all our release folders. That would be very bad if they are all gone.

[Octavious]

Apparently our releases and the entire network where we have our major stuff is fine. So at least that..

[LawBeefaroni]

I got hit my first month on the job here. I shut down and called IT immediately. They were able to recover a backup from about 10 mins prior and since it was like 7am there was little disruption.


Turns out it was from a .gov HHS/CMS portal. Didn't feel so bad about it then.

[Isgrimnur]

Working on your resume yet?

[Octavious]

LOL that's been cleaned up and ready way before this. I've been applying to stuff here and there. Not sure how bad this all is yet.

[Smoove_B]

Those damn fully remote folks hacking into your system. I knew it was a bad idea to have access to the outside world! Intranet for life!

[Octavious]

Ya I'm sure that will be blamed and we won't ever be allowed to do anything from home. They are perfectly fine when I take a call at 7am though. Go figure.

[Paingod]

Ya I'm sure that will be blamed ...

In B4 "It was the CEO, opening a ZIP attachment after insisting on having Domain Admin privileges "because he runs the company" ... "

[Jaymann]

Can you beat it if you yank the hard drive and put in a new one?