# Ransom attack on Elasticsearch cluster?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ransom-attack-on-elasticsearch-cluster/71310>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 12, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ransom-attack-on-elasticsearch-cluster/71310 "2017-01-12T04:47:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ransom-attack-on-elasticsearch-cluster/71310/14 "2017-01-13T14:27:06Z")

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Read [https://www.elastic.co/blog/protecting-against-attacks-that-hold-your-data-for-ransom](https://www.elastic.co/blog/protecting-against-attacks-that-hold-your-data-for-ransom)

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