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>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
by 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.