Chinanews, July 19, according to the US "World Journal" report, a Chinese owner in Southern California, Ms. C, recalled a few months ago that her company's data and systems were hacked, and she was still in shock.
When she found that all the customer’s data was gone, the hacker left a message stating that the data had been stolen and demanded to pay a ransom of 2 million US dollars, otherwise the data would be lost. Ms. C was shocked. She didn’t expect the hacker extortion incidents often read in the news. , It happened in my own company.
Hacking incidents have been frequent in recent years, and Ms. C is just one of tens of thousands of victims every year.
After the incident, Ms. C, on the advice of the company's IT staff, quickly contacted a team dedicated to solving network security issues, and the team quickly took over the issue.
Not only immediately isolated the attacked system and computer, but for several days, the company also temporarily replaced all computers with new ones.
After investigating, the network security team determined that the hacker did not steal the data at all, but deleted all the data.
In other words, even if Ms. C follows the hacker's instructions to make money, she may not be able to retrieve the data, and the hacker will not be able to find it when it disappears.
Fortunately, Ms. C usually has a good habit of requiring all important data such as customer data in the company to be backed up and updated daily, so there is not much loss. The network security team helped to give some future preventive measures and suggestions.
Ms. C said that afterwards, she also heard that many small and medium-sized enterprises in the Chinese district or other communities were also hacked.
It turns out that hackers not only attack large companies or government agencies in the news, but also target these small companies with low security protection. Not only are they easy to obtain, they can also swindle money.
In addition to being thankful that she has done a good job of data backup, she also hopes to remind the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises to pay attention to network security issues. If unfortunately they are attacked, they should ask a professional team to solve them instead of paying the ransom in order to get things done, because the hacker’s promise is likely to be Bad checks.
Cybersecurity professionals suggest that if the industry is found to be attacked and blackmailed, it should immediately seek professional help.
Usually such teams not only have expertise in responding to attacks, investigating attacks, repairing systems, etc., but also have experience in negotiating ransoms with hackers and evaluating whether to pay ransoms.
In addition, ordinary companies must also pay attention to network security. In addition to backing up all data, improving the security level of their own systems, and purchasing network security insurance, they must also strengthen education of their employees on regular network security knowledge, including paying attention to employee passwords not to leak, and do not click suspicious at will Links etc.
(Li Xue)