This yet again... Reminds me that thread with the article saying companies are stocking up on Bitcoin to pay for data rescue to attackers. If people had backups, there would be no need to fund hackers this way and they would simply stop. If companies/schools can afford to pay this amount of money to hackers and/or "stockpile" with Bitcoin, they can afford trained staff that can secure their network and keep daily backups. Hard drives are also quite inexpensive comparing to paying attackers... But it's their money, so they do whatever they want 
It seems people prefer to be sorry than safe. Wish I had large pockets like this University
It seems people prefer to be sorry than safe. Wish I had large pockets like this University Ransomware will encrypt the backups too if it can. If the backups are stored on a server or network drive they are toast. Best way is to backup using tapes, which few organizations do in the age of the cloud.
