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Hamilton refuses to pay hackers 'huge' ransom in wake of cyberattack (www.cp24.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Grappling7155 to c/ontario

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[–] BCsven 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

To stop hackers all places like cities, hospitals, corps, etc should legally be forced to have a proper backup strategy...so hacker says pay me for your data, and everyone says eff off

[–] Grappling7155 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Mandating cyber insurance coverage could help as well and help align financial interests with cybersecurity ones

[–] BCsven 3 points 11 months ago

Yes, agreed

[–] rbesfe 1 points 11 months ago

Hamilton did have cyber insurance, I bet their premium is through the roof now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Hospitals and Healthcare related companies (e.g. Insurance) at least are required by HIPAA to meet certain security standards. Whether they actually do or not, well who's gonna know if we are just really careful about hiding the stickynote with the password on it.