> It's the victims that would now have two problems: damned if they pay, damned if they dont. The "victims". Most of those victims have only themselves to blam

> It's the victims that would now have two problems: damned if they pay, damned if they dont. The "victims". Most of those victims have only themselves to blame. They are more often than not quite public and successful companies that couldn't are less about security. They get hacked, pay out transom money and don't change a thing. I mean, just look at the poor victim British Airways https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54568784 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54568784 --- start quote --- A subsequent investigation concluded that sufficient security measures, such as multi-factor authentication, were not in place at the time. The ICO noted that some of these measures were available on the Microsoft operating system that BA was using at the time. --- end quote --- Or the poor victim Microsoft: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/02/tech/us-government-microsoft-hack/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/02/tech/us-government-micros... --- start quote --- The hack “was preventable and should never have occurred,” says a report released Tuesday by the US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), a group of government and private cybersecurity experts led by the Department of Homeland Security. --- end quote ---