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Hamilton refuses to pay hackers 'huge' ransom in wake of cyberattack (www.cp24.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

To stop hackers all places like cities, hospitals, corps, etc should legally be forced to have a proper backup strategy...so hacker says pay me for your data, and everyone says eff off

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mandating cyber insurance coverage could help as well and help align financial interests with cybersecurity ones

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, agreed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hamilton did have cyber insurance, I bet their premium is through the roof now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hospitals and Healthcare related companies (e.g. Insurance) at least are required by HIPAA to meet certain security standards. Whether they actually do or not, well who's gonna know if we are just really careful about hiding the stickynote with the password on it.