CARS GLOBALMAG September 2016 | Page 64

OVER 65 GB AT PRESENT RANSOMWARE IS A CONCRETE RISK FOR MOTORSPORT RACING TEAMS The team estimated their files to be worth over $2,000,000 to them. Sadly they chose to pay the ransom to regain their files. However, without their files they’d really have only two main choices: • Spend over $2,000,000 to build up the data set again hoping that they could actually do this even if they had the money • Close the team and stop racing And of course no motorsport team wants to ever choose to stop racing, because racing it’s what we all want to do.