Oh no, NIP by email.
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GrumpyTwig said:
You mean it's a scam intended to obtain money from unsuspecting motorists?
d to stick to.This very scam, being used by Hiscox as a real life Cyber claim example. I personally hadn't seen this one before their blurb reads.....
"The optician held to ransom
Cost covered by Hiscox: £60k
An employee from a chain of opticians – received an email to say that she had been caught speeding and clicked the button which offered to show a photograph of her being caught in the act. Shortly afterwards
our client received an email from someone in Russia to say that they had infected their systems with the Cryptolocker virus and that all files on its servers were encrypted. The encrypted files included patient records and software used to run the business.
The Russians were asking for £400 in Bitcoins for the decryption key. We approved the client’s payment of the ransom. Unfortunately this only recovered 90% of the files and they needed an IT contractor to help them recover the remainder. Their insurance policy covered this business interruption as well as the costs of being unable to trade for a couple of days and not being fully up-to-speed for a couple of weeks."
"The optician held to ransom
Cost covered by Hiscox: £60k
An employee from a chain of opticians – received an email to say that she had been caught speeding and clicked the button which offered to show a photograph of her being caught in the act. Shortly afterwards
our client received an email from someone in Russia to say that they had infected their systems with the Cryptolocker virus and that all files on its servers were encrypted. The encrypted files included patient records and software used to run the business.
The Russians were asking for £400 in Bitcoins for the decryption key. We approved the client’s payment of the ransom. Unfortunately this only recovered 90% of the files and they needed an IT contractor to help them recover the remainder. Their insurance policy covered this business interruption as well as the costs of being unable to trade for a couple of days and not being fully up-to-speed for a couple of weeks."
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