If one group got it, there's no reason to assume another group didn't also get to it first and simply sat on the data. There's also no reason to assume the grou

If one group got it, there's no reason to assume another group didn't also get to it first and simply sat on the data. There's also no reason to assume the group holding your data ransom is acting as a single reasonable entity: it could be a group of people, each with a copy, who all have different opinions on what to do.