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Ransomware is not new – the first reported case was in 1989. It seems that every time you check the news, there is a new ransomware attack.

“While LinkedIn may not have been the victim of a data breach, this development proves that motivated attackers are still capable of gleaning and leveraging publicly available information that can have broad implications on consumers,”

“While LinkedIn may not have been the victim of a data breach, this development proves that motivated attackers are still capable of gleaning and leveraging publicly available information that can have broad implications on consumers,” Jim Gogolinski, vice president of research and intelligence and cloud network security company iboss Inc., told SiliconANGLE.

Jim Gogolinski, iboss Vice President of Research and Intelligence, broke down the breach of information that Electronic Arts experienced and what impact it may have going forward.

“REvil’s threat is a clear and long-term threat,” said Jim Gogolinski, vice president of research and intelligence at cyber company iboss. “In the short term, any classified data could be shared or sold to nations hostile to the United States. In the long term, the personnel information extracted could be used for targeting Sol Oriens’ employees through social engineering as well as classic espionage elicitation techniques.”