“... as soon as May of 2016... This didn’t happen until a year later....
by the end of 2016.”

Hey Author, can you clarify what you mean here? It’s the 2nd last paragraph.

It is perfectly reasonable

I’ve only had one experience with ransomware. I downloaded it (not smart) on an older laptop.. Basically it took all this laptop had to launch windows, you could run applications but one at a time and very patiently.