Will Garmin Pay $10m Ransom to End Two-Day Outage?

Posted by stepstop on Saturday July 25, 2020 @01:26PM
from the forbes.com dept.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/07/25/will-garmin-pay-10m-ransom-to-end-two-day-outage/#36b2da8e3164

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Re:Will Garmin Pay $10m Ransom to End Two-Day Outage? by trocado on Saturday July 25, 2020 @03:42PM (#23951815)

If it matters, as a customer /user, I'd rather forego all my data on their cloud and wait whatever time is necessary for them to rebuild the systems, than have Garmin pay the ransom.

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Re:Will Garmin Pay $10m Ransom to End Two-Day Outage? by tdrp on Saturday July 25, 2020 @05:07PM (#23952433)

According to this TC article, it's basically illegal for a company to pay the ransom:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/25/garmin-outage-ransomware-s...

I sort of agree with that since if companies start paying up then suddenly that thing will be more and more widespread.

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Re:Will Garmin Pay $10m Ransom to End Two-Day Outage? by tinus_hn on Saturday July 25, 2020 @06:25PM (#23952864)

Still it happens all the time, of course.

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