By: Joseph Lichterman | Nieman Lab
It was the first Saturday in November when Patrick Neelin, the lead engineer at the University of Missouri’s public radio station KBIA, got an emergency call from the station’s programming director.
“He said, ‘Patrick, I’m trying to open some of our files up on our shared storage and every file comes up with a warning that it’s been corrupted,'” Neelin recalled. And alongside the corrupted files were documents demanding $500 in bitcoin to unlock the files.
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