If you ask for too much you'll have serious law enforcement coming after you. Ask for only a little bit and the focus is more on the fact that the hotel was idi

If you ask for too much you'll have serious law enforcement coming after you. Ask for only a little bit and the focus is more on the fact that the hotel was idiotic for letting this happen then it is on the hackers. Especially with the standard policy of "we do not negotiate". That policy is really hard to justify when the amount is so small compared to the damage of delaying payment.