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'Payment sent' - travel giant CWT pays US$4.5 million ransom to cyber criminals

By Jack Stubbs on Aug 3, 2020 11:20AM
'Payment sent' - travel giant CWT pays US$4.5 million ransom to cyber criminals

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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. travel management firm CWT paid US$4.5 million this week to hackers who stole reams of sensitive corporate files and said they had knocked 30,000 computers offline, according to a record of the ransom negotiations seen by Reuters. The attackers used a strain of ransomware ...

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By Jack Stubbs
Aug 3 2020
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