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Re:Hackers extorted $1.14M from UCSF by throwaway749294 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:12PM (#24860387)
Well, they did gut their IT staff four years ago to replace them with low paid foreign workers.

And reading the poor spelling and grammar in the negotiations makes me wonder if that’s somehow related.

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Re:Hackers extorted $1.14M from UCSF by secabeen on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:18PM (#24860461)
They outsourced some IT staff. Reports are that this attack hit the epidemiology department, which lists a 10-person IT staff: https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/our-team

I don't think we can assume that the IT outsourcing directly affected their vulnerability to this attack.

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