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Was it stolen or was it ransomware? the article sort of mushes the two together into one thing. did both happen? Now I am not saying it was not stolen, it prob
by somat 3y ago
Was it stolen or was it ransomware? the article sort of mushes the two together into one thing. did both happen?
Now I am not saying it was not stolen, it probably was, seeing as it was a third party service that was compromised. But stealing data(getting an illegal copy of it) is a very different thing than ransomware (the data may have never been copied. but access to it has been lost)
ransomware is the term usually reserved for when the data was not leaked but the owner is unable to access it anymore(unless they pay the ransom).
update: the link was changed to a much better article, so this question no longer makes sense. The data was stolen.
- yieldcrv 3y agoransomware campaigns can be a distraction from a parallel exploit
- alphager 3y agoRansomware groups have changed their approach and now routinely steal the data before encrypting it. They then offer two tiers of payment: pay X and they won't leak the data or opt for the premium plan and get the key to decrypt the data.