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Friday, April 15, 2016
City pays hackers $750 in ransom
By Dylan Chaffin dchaffin@snovalleystar.com
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Danny Kolke, owner of Boxley’s (left) plays his own composition of Frank Sinatra’s ‘September in the Rain’ during a jam session on April 10. The jazz club’s open sign (right) remains lit for now.
BYE, BYE BOXLEY’S
North Bend landmark to close its doors By Dylan Chaffin dchaffin@snovalleystar.com After seven years of offering customers a mixture of food and jazz, Boxley’s, a North Bend landmark, will soon be closing its doors. The announcement came via a Facebook post addressed to friends from Danny Kolke,
the business’s founder. “It’s been an incredible experience,” he wrote. “However, it has not been a profitable one.” But, as all great artists know, the show must go on. “Personally, I’m a jazz musician, not a restaurateur,” Kolke wrote. “As an organization, jazz is our passion. By not operating the restaurant, we believe we can focus on our passion for music programming and improve what we do best.” The programming he
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The Duvall Fire District now has safeguards in place against hackers after it was victimized in a phishing scam in January. Though no essential files such as payroll or other financial information were hacked, other documents, such as technology files and day-today operations, which the fire district is required by law to have, were breached in the scam, Chief David Burke said. The city of Snoqualmie, which offers information technology services to the district, paid a $750 ransom using bitcoin, a digital currency, to receive a decryption key that would allow the district to begin retrieving the files on Jan. 22. The email which contained the CryptoLocker virus looked like an invoice from the fire district’s dispatch center, and was forwarded from Burke to administrative staff, where an employee opened it and was asked to follow a series of instructions designed to disable the security measures in place, said Snoqualmie Information Technology Director P.J. Rodriguez. The scam can encrypt hundreds of thousands of files in See RANSOM, Page 3
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