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A part of their damage claim is based on the costs incurred by this so-called cyberattack. "These hacking attacks [scraping mostly JSON] materially affected OCL
by wongarsu 3y ago
A part of their damage claim is based on the costs incurred by this so-called cyberattack. "These hacking attacks [scraping mostly JSON] materially affected OCLC’s production systems and servers, requiring around-the-clock efforts from November 2022 to March 2023 to attempt to limit service outages and maintain the production systems’ performance for customers. To respond to these ongoing attacks, OCLC spent over 1.4 million dollars on its systems’ infrastructure and devoted nearly 10,000 employee hours to the same." Also "During this time, customers threatened and likely did cancel their products and services with OCLC due to these disruptions."
Those are probably the most valid angles to push here. Mostly the invested time and money since they are actually quantifiable, as opposed to the people who maybe probably definitely canceled their service because of the disruption.
- abracadaniel 3y agoThey allege 2.2T downloaded. Over that time frame of 5 months, I calculate about 1.5Mbit download rate. The 10k hours over the timespan they specify is over 10 employees working 40 hours a week. None of their claims make any sense.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoRight? In the end it cost, what, a couple dollars in bandwidth?, a couple hundred? A couple thousand? Fine I'll make you whole out of my pocket change. Meanwhile how much did you waste on that laywer?