CryptoWall and Dickson County Sheriff’s Office

Sheriff’s department of The Dickson County, Tennessee was attacked by a Ransomware trojan ware that encrypts all of the files on the system and can be decrypted only (HA, yeah right!) if the ransom has been paid for them to the malware handlers/creators.

Detective Jeff McCliss said that a Ransomware malware on a computer locked the agency’s case files, which included autopsy reports, witness statements and crime scene photos.

A few things ran through my mind while watching this:

1. Why are you storing sensitive case files locally
2. “An Accident“
3. What? No backup?
4. Director of IT? More like Sheriff who knows how to install MS Office. AmiRight?
5. lol

Click here to go to the video at http://nypost.com/2014/11/13/sheriffs-office-pays-500-bitcoin-ransom-to-access-their-own-files/.