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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by yyyk on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:41AM (#24034295)
Credit card fraud is 'some people steal credit card numbers and (eventually) steal some funds'. It's not good, but it doesn't have the major disruptive effects ransoming an hospital has.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24033925

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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by dgoldstein0 on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:58AM (#24034354)
and usually the credit card companies reverse the charges, and bear the cost. so it's quite different.
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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by bemmu on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:16AM (#24034431)
Merchants often end up paying the cost though.
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