Have heard that kind of hacking software before, which encrypted all files on my computer, and when my brother have been using the computer (or course carelessly), it is hacked and they demand a 1.2BTC ransom... These are just one more bad news of BTC, and even make my family members have even worse image on bitcoin... And we decided not to pay the coins to the hacker as all important files have been backed up.
Whay do you think?
Whay do you think?
Cryptolocker
Are the files backed up anywhere else, and are the files valuable (work documents, personal media)? I stopped following this a while back, but I think there was a service that could recover these files for free. If not, and the files are valuable enough, you could actually pay it, as some businesses have done (the ransom was less than the opportunity cost of losing the data.
Good luck, and bummer dude
