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Hackers Offer Decrypt Key to Irish Health Service With a Catch

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Dissent

Ryan Gallagher and Peter Flanagan of Bloomberg report:

A day after threatening to publicly release patient data, the hackers who targeted Ireland’s health service offered a decryption key that they said could be used to unlock computers infected with ransomware.

While seeming to offer an olive branch — sharing a link to download the decryption key — the group reiterated its threats to disclose patient data unless Irish authorities paid the $20 million ransom demand.

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