The data corruption approach is devious and something I hadn't considered, but I also feel like it eliminates much of an attacker's advantage. The more extensiv

The data corruption approach is devious and something I hadn't considered, but I also feel like it eliminates much of an attacker's advantage. The more extensive the corruption, the more likely it will draw attention, possibly to the ransomware itself, so an attacker would want to keep this to a minimum. In turn, a victim would probably choose to live with minor data corruption over paying a ransom, or at least I'd expect the payout threshold to greatly diminish vs the scenario where 100% of the data is held hostage.