The company says it made that payment to prevent more disruptions after its plants in North America and Australia were shut down.
GREG MYRE, BYLINE: The problem has long plagued bank robbers and drug smugglers – how to transport and hide large sums of ill-gotten gains without getting caught.
MYRE: But Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies made it possible to extort huge ransoms from large companies, hospitals and city governments.
YONATAN STRIEM-AMIT: You see exactly all the way the money moves from one address, one wallet to another.
The FBI did recover more than half of the $4.4 million in ransom the company paid to the hackers, believed to be based in Russia.
SHETH: Cybersecurity, the last couple years, has become a hot topic.