A law firm was hit with the randomware, Cryptolocker, and lost all of their client data .

A new, dangerous, form of malware was released into the wild: CryptoLocker. In the past, most malware or viruses were more annoying than dangerous. They changed your default search engine, the caused pop-ups, they changed system settings – but you were usually able to recover from a virus attack. CryptoLocker is different and very dangerous.