George W. Bush Center hacked; ransom paid in exchange for apparent destruction of data

Washington Times ^ | August 1 | By Andrew Blake

[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.

[knarf]

https://www.blackbaud.com/?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_campaign=google_search_us_alpha_Brand_BBrand&utm_content=blackbaud&_bt=405489739165&_bm=e&_bn=g&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI592T5a786gIV1f_jBx1aLQ4gEAAYASAAEgLeXPD_BwE

[Wilderness Conservative]

Hacked by the same evil doers who attacked us on 911 because they hate us for our freedoms, right? FU GWB!

[RandFan]

LOL!

Care to guess what was stolen and why they don’t want it to come out? Donor names are hardly worth paying a ransom for, right?

[rx]

"data ... destroyed"

Extortion money was paid, but now the data are safely gone?

It's not likely the people in that fairy tale live happily ever after!