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Royal Mail is still a very large corporation and could have paid. BUT they simply did not think the amount was worth paying, I suspect both in term of the direc
by mytailorisrich 4y ago
Royal Mail is still a very large corporation and could have paid. BUT they simply did not think the amount was worth paying, I suspect both in term of the direct consequence if the data were published (which the hackers apparently did in the end) and in term of PR, reputation, etc because they couldn't have kept the payment secret (too big).
So IMHO the issue was miscalculating leverage.
- Retric 4y agoThis could be a loss for the criminals or a way to build reputation so the next victim is more likely to pay up.
- bluGill 4y agoThere is one more point: by not paying they develop a reputation that they are not worth attacking. The next criminal org might just skip attacking them. If everyone follows this examples the criminals will give up.
- frankreyes 4y agoIt depends because the costs of running the malware operation are way less than 80M. At this point they are just going for the lulz. the hackers already threatened going nuclear by releasing files and letting Europe fines their 0.5% which is more then 80M. This is not over and Royal Mail is in a lose/lose situation here