Dear Members, In the recent past, several of the American universities have paid exorbitant ransoms to prevent the ransomware gang from leaking the stolen data from the universities.  The latest victim is The University of UTAH. The University has revealed today that it paid a ransomware gang $457,059 in order to avoid having hackers leak student information online. For the full story, you may visit the link: https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-utah-pays-457000-to-ransomware-gang/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=29323801799427318614149213​933539&mid=12997874&cid=2252531444 Best regards, Francis Francis Jayakanth JRD Library, IISc. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.