This type on scamming goes on all the time with hospitals and land bound businesses who need their data back now, and will pay up to get it.
Cruise ships would be a natural target for ransomware extortion.(sorry, not our problem, you're flagged in another country).
This attack on a Carnival line ship is just what a Cruise line doesn't need while treading water just to stay afloat.
Future information will tell what the purpose of the hack is.- Tom
Man, they just can’t catch a break.
Our government has a cyber security capability that is amazing. We simply do not use it. We could easily know who made the attacks and kill them, nut we let our citizens suffer instead.
AIDA Cruises is a German cruise line founded in the early 1960s and organized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc since 2003. Based in Rostock, Germany, AIDA Cruises caters primarily to the German-speaking market; as seagoing “club resorts”.
“Cruise Ships Forced to Cancel Sailings Due to Possible Cyberattack”
Are they SERIES?
Now that I know this, I won’t be going on a cruise anytime soon. /s
Ship to shore radios return.