Even if there is a top down policy of not paying ransoms, the attackers still have an incentive to format the drives and leak the data to gain credibility for t

Even if there is a top down policy of not paying ransoms, the attackers still have an incentive to format the drives and leak the data to gain credibility for their next attack. Many types of attack don't actually know where they're breaking into at the time they break in. And once you're in, you might as well try running a ransom attack.