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Do I read this right? They offered to pay $400K even though they had backups to restore their data from? Does this mean that the restore operation cost more tha
by pilif 7y ago
Do I read this right? They offered to pay $400K even though they had backups to restore their data from? Does this mean that the restore operation cost more than 400K or was this an incredible sample of laziness?
They'd rather pay the ransom to a criminal than invest the time it takes to restore backups?
- bluescrn 7y agoEven with good backups and a prompt recovery, you could be looking at losing a day or so of data/work across the affected organisation. If the system had been backing up encrypted files for days/weeks then there’s a much higher cost to restoring from older backups
- SahAssar 7y agoMaking sure the systems are actually clean after getting the files decrypted costs too though. The comparison would be (due diligence to make sure systems are clean + ransom) vs. (restoring backups + lost work).