Can we talk about the time my whole shop got locked out by ransomware?

Honestly, it was about five years back at my electrical shop in Spokane. I came in on a Monday morning and every computer screen just showed that red skull and crossbones message demanding two grand in Bitcoin. Tbh, I felt like an idiot because I knew about backups but never got around to setting them up properly. It turned out my old bookkeeping software had a security hole that hadn't been patched in years. I lost almost a full week of invoices and client notes trying to rebuild everything from paper records. Now I run automated backups to an external drive every single night, no excuses. Has anyone else had to rebuild after something like that, and what did you change first?

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coleman.jade1d ago

Man, that's rough. My buddy's print shop got hit last year and it was a total mess. He had to start over with a whole new system and now he's paranoid about clicking any email link.

the_piper1d ago

Ugh, I used to think that stuff was overblown until @coleman.jade's story made me get it.