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Scottish EPA refuses to pay ransomware on 1.2GB files

»www.theregister.com/2021 ··· _ransom/
»www.sepa.org.uk/about-us ··· -attack/
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Scotland's environmental watchdog has confirmed it is dealing with an "ongoing ransomware attack" likely masterminded by international "serious and organised" criminals during the last week of 2020. "On Christmas Eve, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) confirmed that it was responding to a significant cyber-attack affecting its contact centre, internal systems, processes and internal communications," it revealed. So what's been pinched? Security specialists going over the attack and its impact have so far identified a loss of around 1.2GB worth of data, an indication that "at least four thousand files may have been accessed and stolen by criminals", SEPA said. This was said to include publicly available regulated site permits; authorisation and enforcement notices; some SEPA corporate plans; project data involving procurement awards; project information connected to commercial work with international partners; and staff information – though "limited sensitive data was accessed".
Just for some levity, in my mind's eye, I'm picturing James Doohan / Scotty or Michelle Gomez unleashing a torrent of Scottish burr explitives over THIS fustercluck.

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Good for them. The behavior that you incentivize is the behavior that you get more of. Not one penny.

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»www.theregister.com/2021 ··· failure/ -- "Awa' an bile yer heid,* SEPA tells ransomware scum"
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About 4,000 stolen files from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) have been dumped online by frustrated ransomware criminals after the public sector body refused to pay out. The move was predicted by the agency itself following the Conti criminal gang’s malware attack against SEPA earlier this month. SEPA had, quite correctly, refused to pay the extortionists to prevent disclosure. It had even predicted how many files the crims would dump online, saying on 14 January: “Nevertheless, it still means that at least four thousand files may have been stolen by criminals.” The effects of the attack were to knock a few of SEPA’s services offline, although it insisted that its flood forecasting and warning functions were able to continue operating regardless of the disruption.
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* Scottish-to-"This Side Of The Atlantic"-English-translation here -- »www.independent.co.uk/ne ··· 491.html