Well it's exactly what happened here. > The university said its staff restored from backups; however, the ransomware gang threatened to release student-related

Well 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.