While golfing fans have been all about this week’s PGA Championship, extortion-minded hackers were more focused on the PGA of America’s computer servers.

On Tuesday, employees at the sporting organization found themselves locked out of files relating to marketing materials for this week’s event, in Missouri, and next month’s Ryder Cup in France.

According to Golfweek, “Staff realized Tuesday morning that their systems had been compromised when attempts to work on the files generated an ominous message: ‘Your network has been penetrated. All files on each host in the network have been encrypted with a strong algorythm [sic].'”

They were also warned not to try to break the encryption or else they might not be able to get back certain files.

The PGA said it won’t respond to exortion demands; the hackers had included a Bitcoin wallet number, though no specific ransom amount was demanded. The situation remains unresolved as of yesterday.

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