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Re:Universities Targeted by NetWalker Ransomware by Angostura on Saturday June 13, 2020 @12:05PM (#23510390)
> Within the EU, GDPR seems to have an interesting impact on how companies/organisations respond to cyber attacks like this: if they don't pay the ransom, the data is leaked, and they are now liable under GDPR and will likely have to pay a (very large) fine to the regulator for the data leak.

Can you cite any examples where The threat of GDPR has contributed to the payment of fines

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Re:Universities Targeted by NetWalker Ransomware by p0llard on Saturday June 13, 2020 @12:10PM (#23510429)
No I can't, and I don't see how anyone would know of such an example unless they were directly involved; if such occurrences were known publicly, the regulator would also know, which defeats the entire point.

I don't have any idea regarding the scale of the impact laws like GDPR have had on cybercrime; I'm just pointing out that there's clearly an interaction (and I'm not the first person to say this by any means), and that I would be interested to know whether the California privacy laws had any impact on UC's decision.

I'm a big supporter of GDPR by the way; this isn't an "anti-GDPR fantasy", just my observation on a potential interaction between GDPR and cyber crime.

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