Posted on 08/01/2020 9:17:39 PM PDT by RandFan
The George W. Bush Presidential Center was the victim recently of a hack attack that resulted in an undisclosed sum being paid to the perpetrator, the organization announced Friday.
Unencrypted data involving the Bush Center’s donors, including names, contact information and contribution history, was compromised during a May security breach, the organization said on its website.
The donor data was stolen during an attack suffered by Blackbaud, a third-party data management service used by the Bush Center, but has supposedly since been destroyed.
“Blackbaud informed us that it paid a ransom to the attackers in order to obtain confirmation that the compromised unencrypted information has been destroyed,” the Bush Center said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Good thing the Center had everything backed up at their Saudi Arabian headquarters.
Blackbaud? Uh oh. A friend of mine is the CIO. Not good.
If true....How sweet it is. —Jackie Gleason
These clowns responsible for maintaining the website are idiots. No excuse for this. I have no sympathy. Funny? Yes. Unfortunate? Well, that depends....
If true....How sweet it is. —Jackie Gleason
These clowns responsible for maintaining the website are idiots. No excuse for this. I have no sympathy. Funny? Yes. Unfortunate? Well, that depends....
Ask him if paying ransom’s encourages hacking and/or crime...
What would you accept as confirmation that data had been destroyed?
How much would it take to get them to destroy Obama’s data?
Oops, forgot...there isn’t any.
I think it does. But I’m not going there. I owe him a lot. He probably didn’t make the call to do this, but I’m still betting he’ll be looking for a job. Well, maybe he’ll come back to Texas now. I’ll have a convo on this, but won’t write about it. I shouldn’t have mentioned it. Was shocked to see this and reacted without thinking.
No worries. We’re all FRiends here!
The Bushes wanted to get rid of some dirt.
Inside Job???
And for anyone who believes the data was destroyed .... I own a major New York City Bridge that I’d sell you at a bargain price.
You mean the data was wiped, like with a cloth?
Hopefully the self portraits of a bathing W were saved!
It is very inexpensive to back up off site.
The company I am at had ransomware on one of the network drives. The company just erased the drive and put a backup of the data back on. Only some newer files were lost as you have to go back before the ransomware showed up.
The data was destroyed—after it was sold to twenty seven other entities around the world....yawn.....
That is just like George duh-bya mush to pay...
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