In March, Waters said she received threatening phone messages sent to her from a man in Kansas who told her 'I got an AK47 and I'll use it if I have to,' and another similar message from a man in Mississippi, reported. In August a San Francisco man was hit with federal charges for allegedly sending Waters a death threat that contained a racial slur and was signed on behalf of the KKK. While this appears to be the first time she has claimed to be hacked, Waters, who has served California's 43rd district since 1991, has been the target of death threats for years now. Neither account appeared to like or post anything out of the ordinary, a usual hallmark of a social media hacking. Waters has two verified accounts on the platform, her personal verified account and her re-election campaign account which has not tweeted since June. The council has since told the BBC that all systems have been restored without having to pay off the hackers.Waters has not publicly commented on the alleged hacking since her tweet shortly before noon However, when the English county council for Lincolnshire was faced with a £350 ransomware demand last month, it refused to pay. Last year, security firm Kaspersky acknowledged what it said was a “bitter fact”- “unless precautions are taken, victims may not be able to recover their data in any other way than by paying the demanded ransom.”
Ransomware attacks are increasingly common. “The quickest and most efficient way to restore our systems and administrative functions was to pay the ransom and obtain the decryption key.”Īll systems currently in use had been cleared of malware and thoroughly tested, he added. “The amount of ransom requested was 40 bitcoins, equivalent to approximately $17,000,” he wrote. Previously, local news sources had reported that the hackers were demanding a ransom payment of $3.4m – but Mr Stefanek denied this. Ransomware is a form of malware which infects a victim’s computer, locking it, and demanding that a ransom – often in bitcoins – be paid in order to restore access. However, the hospital’s chief executive Allen Stefanek, said that the incident had not affected the delivery or quality of patient care. Staff had been forced to carry out some tasks on paper. Systems at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center had been affected for more than a week. A Los Angeles hospital has paid $17,000 (£11,800) to hackers after its computer systems were taken offline by ransomware.
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