crankymessiah wrote:
] ] Three weeks ago, in a stunning raid, Russian hackers
] ] seized control of the servers that support one of the
] ] Internet's largest online gaming operations, demanding a
] ] ransom. It was a real-life, high-tech version of the
] ] movie Ocean's Eleven. By the time the ransom was paid,
] ] one key server -- the one containing all operational data
] ] for 120 Internet gaming sites and a long list of
] ] consulting clients -- seemed to be stripped of its data.
] ]
] ]
] ]
] ] At stake were all the operational records of a gambling
] ] empire. "We didn't even have the names of customers,"
] ] says Juan Bonilla, executive vice-president of Grafix
] ] Softech F.A. of San Juan, Costa Rica. "We lost
] ] everything." To make matters worse, little, if any, of
] ] the data had been backed up off-site. Grafix Softech was
] ] losing an estimated US$75,000 a day in profits, and the
] ] incident left it open to lawsuits from customers whose
] ] businesses relied on Grafix Softech's services. What
] ] could have been a major disaster became a bump in the
] ] corporate road. In an amazing feat of ingenuity, CBL Data
] ] Recovery Technologies Inc. of Markham, Ont., managed to
] ] recover all the lost data. It was a close call, admits
] ] Bill Margeson, president of CBL

now *THAT'S* cyberterrorism.

RE: Russian hackers raid largest online gaming operation