University of California pays over $1M to ransomware gang

"A ransomware gang has struck gold again, this time for more than $1 million.

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) announced on June 26 that it paid $1.14 million to a ransomware group.

‘We … made the difficult decision to pay some portion of the ransom, approximately $1.14 million, to the individuals behind the malware attack in exchange for a tool to unlock the encrypted data and the return of the data they obtained,’ said the university, which had an endowment with assets of $4 billion as of June 30, 2019." …

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/university-pays-over-1m-to-ransomware-gang

If I were a California taxpayer, I would be pissed.