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Re:US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypte... by everybodyknows on Thursday September 05, 2019 @08:18PM (#20891873)
Indeed. I've worked at a big corp where it was belatedly discovered that backups were broken.

A second reason would be to give the attackers reason to pause, in case they somehow had a second bomb to throw, while IT hardened defenses:

>Since the attack, the city has installed additional security software and is developing new protocols.

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Re:US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypte... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday September 06, 2019 @09:20AM (#20895345)
> Indeed. I've worked at a big corp where it was belatedly discovered that backups were broken.

Ancient wisdom: If you don't test your backups then you don't have any backups.

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