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While true sometimes, like when the US says they won't negotiate with terrorists, the realpolitik is that if the data is valuable enough normally companies will
by simmerup 3y ago
While true sometimes, like when the US says they won't negotiate with terrorists, the realpolitik is that if the data is valuable enough normally companies will pay for it.
Most won't take some moral stand that costs them money.
- AndroTux 3y agoOf course companies would pay for data if they had the choice. And small companies often do in case of a ransom attack. But if you're as big as Sony, there's really no upside to paying them. Like the other commenter said, if they did pay, the attackers would without a doubt still sell the data to others. Why wouldn't they? It's not like they have any morale. And to make things worse, this would just signal to other hacker groups that hacking Sony is very profitable, since they apparently are happy to pay. So they would just increase the target on their back. No upside.
- simmerup 3y agoRansomware encrypts files on the disk also. The business pays to unencrypt the files and achieve business as usual operations. The business doesn't need to trust the attackers not to further share data to get their upside, though I'm sure that helps.
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