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Re:Hacking Back Makes a Comeback, But Is Still a Bad Idea by mobilemidget on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:20PM (#15845522)
While I intend to agree, its not 100% correct. In case the only copy of that data resides on the server you hack back and you can delete it... you have actually unstolen the data... technically speaking..

In practice of course, you have to assume its already copied a trillion times.

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Re:Hacking Back Makes a Comeback, But Is Still a Bad Idea by mannykannot on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:54PM (#15845882)
In practice, a company finding one copy might delete it and then claim that it was as if there had been no breach and so that it does not have to report it, or do anything to protect, or even warn, the people whose information was stolen. Uber took this position after merely paying the intruders to say that they had deleted the data.
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