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    7 months ago

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    More than four months after a ransomware attack shut down the Toronto Public Library’s computer systems, staff are finally putting a million stranded books back on the shelves.

    Visible atop chest-high stacks of books are countless children’s titles about fall and Halloween, all returned after cybercriminals downed the systems required to put them back on the shelves.

    Standing amid the piles of boxes in January, Dawson said staff created resource lists for library patrons who needed to find alternative ways to access critical public computers and printing services.

    CBC News looked through ransomware groups’ websites on the dark web, and found numerous instances where Canadian businesses — both for-profit and nonprofit — had supposedly been hacked, with alleged victims ranging from a bakery to an energy company.

    “How these groups actually work is they hack anything that they are actually able to get into, and unfortunately sometimes it’s a library, sometimes it’s a company with a lot of money,” said Bob McCardle, a researcher with cybersecurity software giant Trend Micro in Cork, Ireland.

    Cybercriminals not only encrypted library files, but stole employee data, including social insurance numbers, home addresses and copies of government-issued identification documents that they’d provided to their employer.


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