A University of Alberta student was arrested for inserting malware into the school's network affecting 304 computers and potentially compromising passwords of 3,300 student, faculty and staff.
Although a demand for cash is instituted, the researcher who detected this scourge said this is not a case of ransomware as the content on the database is replaced, rather than encrypted.
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