A Scandinavian hotel chain that suffered a ransomware attack last month said it took a new approach, switching all affected systems to Chrome OS OS to recover from the incident, Slashdot reported.
According to The Record:
Nordic Choice Hotels, which operates 200 hotels in Northern Europe, fell victim to a ransomware attack on December 2 when hackers used Conti Ransomware to encrypt some of its internal systems. As one of the hotel's guests told The Record in an interview last month, the attack left employees without access to guests' booking data or the ability to issue key cards to new arrivals. But in a press release today, Nordic Choice said the hotel did not contact the hackers or negotiate a decryption key to unlock the infected device, choosing instead to migrate its entire PC fleet from Windows to Chrome OS.
"In less than 24 hours, the first hotel was running in Google's Chrome OS ecosystem. And over the next two days, the entire company had 2,000 computer systems converted, including 212 hotels in five different countries," the hotel chain explained. Kari Anna Fiskvik, vice president of technology at Nordic Choice Hotels, said the hotel had run a pilot project to test the tool before the attack as a way to save money by reusing old computers and less demanding operating systems. Fiskvik said: "So when we suddenly had to deal with a cyber attack, we decided within seconds to go all out and speed up the progress of the project." Nordic Choice said it plans to migrate another 2,000 to Chrome OS in addition to the 2,000 computers it migrated during the attack. The hotel chain says they expect to save $6.7 million by converting old computers to Chrome OS instead of buying new hardware.
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