The Memory Station, WAKV in Otsego, Michigan, may want to forget this month after being hacked twice by computer "ransom ware" that knocked the station off the air for a day and has left its owner, Jim Higgs, still assessing the damage, according to MLive.com.
The second attack, Jan. 20 with CryptoWall, locked his office computer and ćame just a day after hackers that had encrypted the station's music library, audio files and records, demanding a ransom for their return to service. Higgs refused to pay.
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The station was off the air the night of Jan. 9 through mid-morning on Jan. 10, with a rudimentary live Saturday morning show, he said.
It appears that in the second attack the on-air computer has not been affected, he told Facebook friends.
" I don't know where I picked it up," Higgs said. "Fortunately most of the music library was backed up, but not the other audio files."
WAKV AM 980 remains on the air.
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