A family member has been hit here in the UK, I've checked mine and all ok, now shut it down (just in case). Further news here.
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Man that would totally suck, just thinking about all the hours spent scanning dvd's and uploading over 1500 movies into plex, to be lost like that would be very depressing.
Internally I run a raid 6 for extra redundancy protection, never considered protection from outside sources. Guess it's time to get an external drive also that is never powered on and stored away except for backups.
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Yep I backup my NAS every few weeks to a drive and store it in my safe. Old school still works.
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Yeah ditto. There’s a guy who posted on the above page, asking how you buy Bitcoin so he can get his family photos back. Due to previous issues with a NAS, I back mine up to an external USB, but that would also be hit here.
Maybe the cloud, or should I say someone else’s PC is the way to go 
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I will be going the route @ritchierich describes above once copied it goes in the safe, only to come out every few months to add to what's been added since last copy.
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I've backed up all my older family photos to "Amazon S3 Glacier" very low cost. You would get hit with more charges if you had to read them all back, but their safe (I think) and only needed in a catastrophe.
My monthly bill is <$1
This is worrying, how did they get in? I have a synology but this could happen to anyone
It appears a vulnerability in the QNAP OS or installed Apps. Best thing to do is get all the OS and included app updates to mitigate. Even better would be to remove direct access from the internet to the QNAP appliance.
They are also requesting that the 8080 port be changed too I believe.
There is a reason I don't open my NAS to the internet directly. And I backup weekly to local hard drives and critical files daily to multiple cloud services. I would hate to wake up and find everything being ransomed. Vendors have to do better in patching their products.
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RAID != backup
Have that conversation at least 1x/week. Well, maybe 1x/month.
I backup my entire nas locally, and select folders (pictures, home video, etc) to the cloud, weekly.
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Don't forget about 3-2-1 backup strategies:
Nor is a "sync" service like Drop Box or OneDrive. For a true backup you need 'retention' multiple copies over extended periods of time. How long and how many should be the question.
We run both Synology and QNAP with a second (less powerful) device for each at a separate locations running HBS or Snapshot Rep. We also back them up to large external USB drives, but be warned we've had issues with failing USB drives causing units not to reboot properly. Having both local and offsite backups provide quick restoration for minor events, as well as protection from fire, theft, natural/terror disaster. If you have access to a separate location with internet access, consider a "failover unit" as another solution to traditional 'cloud' services.
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Awful this.. I’m not effected but what a crap connected world it is sometimes. It seems a lot of people are paying up ... and getting unlock keys at least.
Very true. An online sync is good for certain failure scenarios, but is not as good as a versioned backup.
Really heart-breaking. My bro is currently trying to get his sync back in order, removed all encrypted files and trying to sync 1.5 TB of photos and family movies. I hope they string the bastard up when they find this person (if they ever do).
PS yet another update gone up for the Malware app just now. 4.6.1.1 is the latest.
I cannot recommend Backblaze B2 highly enough for offsite storage. Versioning capable via a client app or on Backblaze itself. You have to know how to set up buckets and keys. I pay $10/month for almost 3tb.
Actually OneDrive has ransomware protection and versioning:
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