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Re:US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypte... by jonknee on Thursday September 05, 2019 @07:29PM (#20891575)
> "I decided to make a counter-offer using insurance proceeds in the amount of $400,000, which I determined to be consistent with ransoms recently paid by other municipalities," Mayor Mitchell said during a press conference (image above). "The attacker declined to make a counter-offer, rejecting the city's position outright."

Because that's what they had an insurance policy for.

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Re:US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypte... by secabeen on Thursday September 05, 2019 @08:04PM (#20891764)
Just because they made a counter-offer doesn't mean they intended to actually send the money to a criminal.
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Re:US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypte... by msmerberry on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:06PM (#20898090)
Right? I saw the line above about giving away taxpayer money. Um...no, only in that while the money originated from taxes, it actually paid to hedge against risk (and the cost of insuring up to 400k is probably significantly less than that amount - what are we talking, several thousand dollars a year MAX of taxpayer money? Worth it!)
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