BOAB IT Recovers Files after Ransomware Attack, Saves Client Thousands of Dollars
BOAB IT Recovers Files after Ransomware Attack, Saves Client Thousands of Dollars
4 PagesBOAB IT Recovers Files after Ransomware Attack, Saves Client Thousands of Dollars CASE STUDY: BOAB IT “We would have been in real trouble had BOAB IT not configured SkyKick to protect our data. We would have likely had to pay the $6,000 ransom, with no guarantee of getting our data unencrypted.” P r a c ti c e M a n a g e r a t l a w fi r m Situation In October 2016, a customer of BOAB IT fell victim to a ransomware attack, reporting that a mailbox and over 44,000 files on SharePoint totaling over 5 GB of data were locked down. This was accompanied by a ransom request of over $6,000 USD for the key to unencrypt the files. Due to the costs of restoring that much data and the resulting weeks of lost productivity, for many companies, paying the ransom is usually the o
