All drives encrypted with BitLocker

[John Roche]

My computer was compromised last night, all my drives were encrypted using BitLocker and a notepad file left on my desktop demanding 1btc payment for access to be restored.

Before I go about formatting the drives and starting again, can anyone advise if there is any work around at all for this. I'm going to lose over 2.5tbs of data, 200GB that i am very concerned about.

 

[Deleted member 904905]

Without the key your files are gone, permanently. You're not going to be able to crack the encryption given several lifetimes. This is where backups become important.

 

[USAFRet]

Either pay them or start over.
You can't undo that encryption. If the encryption were easy to break, it wouldn't be much good.

 

[rgd1101]

all drives? how did you get to the notepad on your desktop?

 

[John Roche]

all drives? how did you get to the notepad on your desktop?

Sorry should have been more clear, my C:/ partition wasn't encrypted, my other 3 HDDs and F:/ drive which is the other partition on the same drive as C:/ were encrypted.