Maastricht University had its system infected with malware after an employee fell for a phishing attack.
The hackers, later identified as TA505, a Russian criminal gang, demanded a ransom of 30 bitcoins, which was worth $220,000 at the time.
The university decided to pay the Bitcoin ransom as the alternative was to rebuild the school’s entire IT network from the ground up.
Source: https://www.databreaches.net/bitcoin-ransom-of-220k-paid-by-maastricht-university/
"id": "MAA21375123",
"linkid": "maastricht-university",
"type": "Ransomware",
"date": "02/2020",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"