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but it's not even ransom, "ransom" is the situation where something/someone is held until money is payed and then it's returned. There is nothing being returne
by riffraff 6y ago
but it's not even ransom, "ransom" is the situation where something/someone is held until money is payed and then it's returned.
There is nothing being returned here, since the hospital has not lost access to the data, and the threat is that private data will be published.
This is just blackmail.
- tertius 6y agoWhat has been lost of the privacy of the data, which can be returned.
- plorkyeran 6y agoNo, it can't. It is impossible for the blackmailers to prove that they no longer have a copy of the data.