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When you pay ransom for physical possession you get your possession back. When you pay ransom for lost data you get a copy of your data back. The culprits stil
by fizixer 6y ago
When you pay ransom for physical possession you get your possession back.
When you pay ransom for lost data you get a copy of your data back. The culprits still have the data, but they likely don't have a use for that data.
But this is the worst kind of ransom.
You already have the data, you're paying ransom to make sure the culprits don't use the data, but the culprits still are in possession of the data and they can use the data next year, or two years later, or demand more payment next year.
What in the world?
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- parliament32 6y ago>The culprits still have the data It'd be too hard/expensive to exfiltrate the data once it gets large enough, without much added benefit. They just encrypt it in-place.
- beervirus 6y agoWell it's exactly what happened here. > The university said its staff restored from backups; however, the ransomware gang threatened to release student-related data online, which, in turn, made university management re-think their approach towards not paying the attackers. The university is paying them not to release the data, but it has no way of forcing them to delete it.