Confirmation of the ARRL ransomware attack last year
I just came across this message on the ARRL-LOTW discussion group (message link here). Apparently it was sent to ARRL members subscribed to their announcements, which I'm guessing is an opt-in email list. I never received it, nor do I know how to subscribe to it (I'll have to do some digging to see if I can find where to sign up for them). This message explains what happened last May when many of the ARRL internal systems were incapacitated (most of us noticed this when Logbook of the World (LOTW) went down for months) due to a well planned ransomware attack. In the end they wound up paying $1 million to get the decryption key, but it still took months before all of their systems were back online. Crazy. =============== From: ARRL <memberlist@arrl.org> Date: August 21, 2024 at 3:02:59 PM CDT Subject: ARRL Member Bulletin for August 21, 2024 Reply-To: memberlist@arrl.org August 21, 2024 ARRL IT Security Incident - Report to Members Sometime in early May 2024, ARRL’s syste...
