> paying the ransom is no _guarantee_ you actually recover I’ve only helped recover from ransomware once about 2 years ago. When we ran the decryption program

> paying the ransom is no _guarantee_ you actually recover I’ve only helped recover from ransomware once about 2 years ago. When we ran the decryption program provided after paying it decrypted ~97% of the data. Some files were just permanently corrupted. Windows Server with ECC memory fwiw. Fun note but the owner wanted to reboot after decryption and I yelled “No!” across the room, wanting to clone the known good data first. Good thing too, a reboot started the encryption all over again… good times. I heard they were hit again but took my advice and setup Backblaze.