Hacker Erases 30 Million Files From CA Transit System... Took Over Computers, Demanded Ransom...

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: November 21, 2017 at 3:38:05 PM EST
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> Subject: Hacker Erases 30 Million Files From CA Transit System... Took Over Computers, Demanded Ransom...
>
> Sacramento Regional Transit Systems Hit By Hacker
> http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/11/20/sacramento-regional-transit-systems-hit-by-hacker/
>
> SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento Regional Transit is the one being taken for a ride on this night, by a computer 
> hacker.
>
> That hacker forced RT to halt its operating systems that take credit card payments, and assigns buses and trains to 
> their routes.
>
> The local transit agency alerted federal agents following an attack on their computers that riders may not have 
> noticed Monday.
>
> “We actually had the hackers get into our system, and systematically start erasing programs and data,” Deputy General 
> Manager Mark Lonergan.
>
> Inside RT’s headquarters, computer systems were taken down after the hacker deleted 30 million files.
>
> The hacker also demanded a ransom in bitcoin, and a left a message on the RT website reading “I’m sorry to modify the 
> home page, I’m good hacker, I just want to help you fix these vulnerability.”...
>
> [SNIP]
>
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