How My Mom Got Hacked

By ALINA SIMONE
JANUARY 2, 2015

MY mother received the ransom note on the Tuesday before
Thanksgiving. It popped up on her computer screen soon after she'd
discovered that all of her files had been locked. "Your files are
encrypted," it announced. "To get the key to decrypt files you have
to pay 500 USD." If my mother failed to pay within a week, the price
would go up to $1,000. After that, her decryption key would be
destroyed and any chance of accessing the 5,726 files on her PC - all
of her data - would be lost forever.

Sincerely, CryptoWall.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/how-my-mom-got-hacked.html


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