It seems like every week, i am being shown evidence of huge — and I do mean HUGE — data leaks out of ii countries: India and Brazil. I fare not report on most of them. But i am not surprised to record a news report that Brazilian authorities agencies hold been hit with ransomware. Felipe Ventura reports on incidents involving the superior court of Justice (STJ) and the Ministry of Health. The following is a Google translation: Journalist Diego Escosteguy published on his website�O Bastidor�the message that hackers would have sent to the STJ: your files are fully encrypted;�modifying the name or content of the affected items (* .stj888) can reason restoration failures , says the text. The authors of the message promise to decrypt a small file, up to 900 KB, to establish they have the key.�But they warn: “the breathe of the data will be available for a fee”. The complete assembling of STJ cases is currently encrypted….. And then there’s the Ministry of Health: According to�Estad�o�, the Ministry of Health also suffered a hacker attempt at sunrise on Thursday.�The network was deactivated around 9:30 am, preventing the utilise of some internal SUS systems and functional e-mail.�Preventively, DataSUS has disabled networks and VPN access, says an internal message to the servers. The ministry does not corroborate the invasion, saying only that it is investigating an “inconsistency” in the systems, with no deadline to return to work. record more on Tecnoblog. h/t, @Chum1ng0