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Hard Times Cafe shutdown due to ransomware
Posted by:
Fox News
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Date: March 24, 2016 01:14AM
http://wtop.com/money/2016/03/hard-times-cafe-in-rockville-hit-with-ransomware/
1:09 am, March 24, 2016
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The Rockville location of Hard Times Cafe has been closed since last weekend, after its point of sale and back office computer systems were infected with ransomware.
Co-owner Bob Howard wants his patrons to know they are working hard to reopen and hope to be back up and running by Friday night or Saturday.
Managers began noticing system problems Saturday night. When the restaurant reopened Sunday, the staff could not access any files and was greeted with a message demanding $10,000, paid by Bitcoin, to release encrypted files.
“The FBI tells us they can’t keep up with ransomware cases,” Howard says. “The advice is either pay the ransom or shut down your entire systems and rebuild from scratch. And that’s what we’re doing.”
The Rockville location has about three dozen full and part-time employees, who have gone without income since the restaurant closed last weekend. Howard believes insurance will cover most costs to replace software and hardware.
Couldn’t the wait staff and kitchen staff just revert to old fashioned paper pads and pencils?
“I could, but my staff couldn’t,” Howard jokes. “They’re lost if they have to put their phones down.”
Howard co-owns the Rockville location with business partner Scott Roth. The Rockville Hard Times has been in business for 31 years.
There are 11 other Hard Times Cafes in the D.C. region. Locations in Germantown and Bethesda recently closed.
1:09 am, March 24, 2016
61°
The Rockville location of Hard Times Cafe has been closed since last weekend, after its point of sale and back office computer systems were infected with ransomware.
Co-owner Bob Howard wants his patrons to know they are working hard to reopen and hope to be back up and running by Friday night or Saturday.
Managers began noticing system problems Saturday night. When the restaurant reopened Sunday, the staff could not access any files and was greeted with a message demanding $10,000, paid by Bitcoin, to release encrypted files.
“The FBI tells us they can’t keep up with ransomware cases,” Howard says. “The advice is either pay the ransom or shut down your entire systems and rebuild from scratch. And that’s what we’re doing.”
The Rockville location has about three dozen full and part-time employees, who have gone without income since the restaurant closed last weekend. Howard believes insurance will cover most costs to replace software and hardware.
Couldn’t the wait staff and kitchen staff just revert to old fashioned paper pads and pencils?
“I could, but my staff couldn’t,” Howard jokes. “They’re lost if they have to put their phones down.”
Howard co-owns the Rockville location with business partner Scott Roth. The Rockville Hard Times has been in business for 31 years.
There are 11 other Hard Times Cafes in the D.C. region. Locations in Germantown and Bethesda recently closed.
Re: Hard Times Cafe shutdown due to ransomware
Posted by:
TruthSpeaks
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Date: March 24, 2016 01:31AM
$2.5 million dollar/year business can't afford to do backups? wtf.
Re: Hard Times Cafe shutdown due to ransomware
Posted by:
GeorgeTheLast
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Date: March 24, 2016 06:17AM
Yet another sign that the FBI is fucking USELESS.
Re: Hard Times Cafe shutdown due to ransomware
Posted by:
MadHacker
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Date: March 24, 2016 10:26AM
All your chili recipes are belong to us.
Re: Hard Times Cafe shutdown due to ransomware
Posted by:
ransomware
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Date: March 24, 2016 11:33AM
I got an amateurish version of this on my computer a few years ago and I remember what a fucking pain it was to get rid of
Re: Hard Times Cafe shutdown due to ransomware
Posted by:
CMKGD
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Date: March 24, 2016 01:34PM
if you catch the mother fucker red handed: i'll pull the trigger if you all wont
Re: Hard Times Cafe shutdown due to ransomware
Posted by:
jkyCF
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Date: March 24, 2016 01:35PM
really why not just reboot? this sounds like totally cock-and-bull story having to do with avoiding bankruptcy or something
Re: Hard Times Cafe shutdown due to ransomware
Posted by:
Fox News
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Date: March 24, 2016 01:38PM
ransomware Wrote:
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> I got an amateurish version of this on my computer
> a few years ago and I remember what a fucking pain
> it was to get rid of
Did you try ctrl+alt+del
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> I got an amateurish version of this on my computer
> a few years ago and I remember what a fucking pain
> it was to get rid of
Did you try ctrl+alt+del
Re: Hard Times Cafe shutdown due to ransomware
Posted by:
Bill.N.
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Date: March 24, 2016 01:57PM
GeorgeTheLast Wrote:
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> Yet another sign that the FBI is fucking USELESS.
More likely the portions of the FBI that don't deal with National Security have been starved for funds just like other Federal agencies.
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> Yet another sign that the FBI is fucking USELESS.
More likely the portions of the FBI that don't deal with National Security have been starved for funds just like other Federal agencies.