NASCAR team red-flagged by ransomware attack

BY: 24 Jun 2016 at 23:10, Iain Thomson 
 
NASCAR, America's favorite no-right-turn racing format, has joined the growing ranks of people hit by, and paying out to fix, ransomware.
The Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing (CSLFR) has admitted paying off ransomware runners after one of its main test computers got infected with Truecrypt malware. The laptop was quickly isolated, but left the team's crucial test data locked up two days before a big race.
"Just knowing that we could lose everything that we have worked so hard to achieve over the years in 48 hours was terrifying," said Dave Winston, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Crew Chief for CSLFR.
"The data that they were threatening to take from us was priceless, we couldn't go one day without it greatly impacting the team's future success. This was a completely foreign experience for all of us, and we had no idea what to do. What we did know was that if we didn't get the files back, we would lose years' worth of work, millions of dollars."
 
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