TRUE STORY:
I had a fringe customer who would call us when they needed something to their network. They had roughly a Hundred Employees. The internal IT department consisted of the office manager. They used outdated unsupported operating systems and all day to day operations were performed by the office manager.
A hacker who phished their way to a Unsupported Windows 7 device, got hold of the machine, reversed engineered himself to SUPER USER status on the server, and went through the server and spent the time to figure out how the company was run. About 2 weeks later on a Saturday night, they encrypted their entire network Computers, Servers everything. Deleted all the backups and canceled the offsite backup.
They wanted $250,000 to get their data back and unencrypt all their data.
Luckily I was able to recover the data from the offsite backup and rebuild all of their computers.
The Moral of the story is , do not rely on untrained personnel and keep your tech updated to the newest revisions.
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