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Royal Australian Navy personnel, Lieutenant Kit Low (foreground), from HMAS Waterhen and Leading Seaman Electronics Technician Callum Spence, from HMAS Kuttabul, use Computer Aided Design to develop ideas at the Centre for Innovation, Fleet Base East in Sydney.
Topic
Cyber
Title

The bizarre story of the inventor of ransomware

Author
Samantha Murphy Kelly
Date of article release
28-May-2021
14 min

BLUF

In 1989 Eddie Willems became the worlds first known recipient of a ransomware attack.

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Learn more about the world’s first ransomware attack.

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