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Company paid a ransom demand. Hackers leaked its data anyway
- josephcsible 4y agoThis surprises me, because it feels like killing the golden goose. I don't think the attackers gained anything by doing this, and it'll make it less likely anyone will pay their ransoms going forward.
- mrcheesebreeze 4y agoSome people just like chaos, they may have not even begun the operation for the money specifically.
- mikece 4y agoWhichever hacker group did this, their worst problem right now is hiding from all of the other ransomware hacker groups because the implicit contract -- you pay us a ransom, you get your data back and we don't spread your data -- between hackers and victim companies is now broken. A victim company doesn't know which hackers will release their info anyway so whatever incentive they had to pay up and then try to fix their systems without worry of a breach is now gone. The hacking group who published data after getting paid is probably in mortal danger from other hackers now.