Ransomware

[mattyg]

I normally just delete these, But one of my staff members has just received an email. Claiming to have hacked his PC and wanting bitcoin (seen loads of these but).. It lists a load of the family's email addresses and more worryingly a load of his passwords.

It looks like its his kids PC so probably been on a dodgy site and downloaded something.

Is this just a case of Format and reinstall windows

 

[mattyg]

Doubt its his pc. Usually if he had an account somewhere and they got hacked and data dumped then they email people with the password used for that account on that website that was hacked and try their luck.
Change password if its the same one used on other places

Theres about 2 dozen of his passwords and his Mrs schools work email addresses.

Hes checking them all on HiveIbeenpwnd. And running some scans