FW: ARRL Member Bulletin for June 6, 2024
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýAnother update on the ARRL cyber attack. ? Some of you have been asking where the info comes from that it was ransomware, or that a ransom was paid.? I¡¯m the one who shared that with Jeff 1, because that is what I heard in the ARRL forum at the Atlanta Hamfest.? Bicycle John KB4SLV and I were at the forum,? Mickey Baker shared info on a number of recent happenings at ARRL.? Among other things, he shared that he was particularly opposed to taking the printed magazine away from those like me who had 2 plus years left on a three year renewal.? He then discussed the cyber attach, said it was a ransomware attack, and said the ransom was paid.? I looked at John and said ¡°did he just say they PAID the ransom?¡±? John said that¡¯s what he heard.? Mickey went on to say that maybe there was some kharma involved, since coincidentally the amount of the ransom was about what it would have cost to have mailed those QSTs.? ? That¡¯s about all the detail I heard.? ? I¡¯m a bit puzzled why ARRL isn¡¯t saying the same thing in communications to members if Board members are sharing that at hamfest forums.? Maybe one hand doesn¡¯t know what the other is doing.? I also can¡¯t shake the sense that ARRL isn¡¯t being completely forthright about all this.? That¡¯s just my opinion, I may be wrong.? ? Outside the forum I asked Mickey when he thought LOTW might be back on line.? He guestimated it would be another month (from then, not from the onset in May).? So maybe late June or early July.? ? In the immortal words of Forrest Gump, ¡°That¡¯s all I have to say about that¡±.? ? Dave UW ? ? From: ARRL <memberlist@...>
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