{"id":5884,"date":"2021-05-21T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=5884"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:10:25","slug":"hse-ireland-hackers-threaten-to-sell-stolen-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/hse-ireland-hackers-threaten-to-sell-stolen-data\/","title":{"rendered":"HSE Ireland Hackers Threaten To Sell Stolen Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Conti Ransomware Gang, the malware group responsible for hacking the Irish health system, has recently published in its negotiating paper for the HSE a link to a free decryptor that can be used for free recovery of encrypted files while warning that they will sell or publish the stolen private data if a ransom of $19,999,000 is not paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Conti Ransomware gang wrote on their payment page: &#8220;We are providing the decryption tool for your network for free. But you should understand that we will sell or publish a lot of private data if you will not connect us and try to resolve the situation.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of Ireland while being aware of the free decryptor explained that it will still perform a technical review of the tool for malicious properties before using it.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/conti-ransomware-gives-hse-ireland-free-decryptor-still-selling-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conti Ransomware Gang threatens to sell HSE Ireland&#8217;s data if a ransom is not paid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5919,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}