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When I said that perhaps they learned their lesson, I was referring to the people who use LoTW as their one and only copy of their logs, not the ARRL (although I hope the ARRL learns some lessons from this episode as well).Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ3N
The ARRL said a few days ago that they paid $1 million to the hackers who hit them with a ransomware attack in May.
https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-it-se...ort-to-members
eh. not so surprising.
Well, when we get hit with the next dues increase, now we know what they'll blame it on.
Even though they SHOULD have insurance to cover that loss. (Betcha they don't)
they said that they did, but..
They claimed to have had insurance coverage.
I hope they learned their lesson here. Defense against a ramsomware attack is simple: backups. After the attack, simply wipe all your systems and restore from backups, and then tell the hackers to go fuck themselves.
I don't have much faith in a bunch of trumpist type people making the correct decisions.
My membership was up last month. I let it lapse, partially because of this but mostly because I think that switching the terms of membership midstream is hardly ethical.