This piece ran on CBC TV News tonight. It involves cyber crooks who, instead of stealing your identity, simply encrypt everything on your computer until a ransom is paid and then release it. It states the City of Detroit refused to pay a ransom of $800,000. Maybe this is why so many citizens are having problems with records. Never heard of this being public previously.

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&...pK64UBAw32npdg