Eight years’ worth of police evidence wiped out in ransomware attack

Ransomeware is such a big problem these days causing havoc wherever it can. In this Naked Security article Sophos discusses how a Texas police force lost a year's worth of digital evidence by getting hit by ransom ware attack in December and refusing to pay the ransom. In their attempt to clean up the systems that were infected they wiped out data that they had no backups for. This digital evidence is gone forever. Had they had in place a backup system set up for disaster recovery, and/or security measures like Sophos’s Intercept X, Sophos Central Server Advanced Protection, Sophos Central EndPoint Advanced Protection they would have had a good chance of not losing anything. That wasn’t the case!

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