{"id":95859,"date":"2019-09-06T10:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/5-3m-ransomware-demand-massachusetts-city-says-no-thanks"},"modified":"2019-09-06T10:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:42:27","slug":"5-3m-ransomware-demand-massachusetts-city-says-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/5-3m-ransomware-demand-massachusetts-city-says-no-thanks","title":{"rendered":"$5.3M Ransomware Demand: Massachusetts City Says No Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-3m-ransomware-demand-massachusetts-city-says-no-thanks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After being hit by a ransomware attack, Massachusetts city New Bedford faced a payout demand of more than $5 million \u2013 one of the largest known ransoms ever.<\/p>\n<p>After a ransomware attack slapped a hefty payout demand of $5.3 million on New Bedford, Mass., the city announced that it is instead opting to pick up the pieces and restore what it can from backups itself.<\/p>\n<p>If the city had opted to pay, the payout would have been the largest known ransom payout for an attack yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being hit by a ransomware attack, Massachusetts city New Bedford faced a payout demand of more than $5 million \u2013 one of the largest known ransoms ever. After a ransomware attack slapped a hefty payout demand of $5.3 million on New Bedford, Mass., the city announced that it is instead opting to pick up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}