Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom

Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by andy_ppp on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:49PM (#27147929)

I wonder how long you’d sit it out losing money before you paid. I think it’s very easy to talk a big game until you’ve lost many multiples of the ransom with no end in sight. It’s literally just a waiting game for the hackers, they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. So what if you don’t pay, you can just leave them screwed and move on to the next one.

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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by viraptor on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:18PM (#27148199)

Or if you're running a service which can't wait. Like a medical clinic with no access to patient records.

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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by andy_ppp on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:58PM (#27148546)

Or you know people's power, heating, electricity, ability to drive, ability for services to run generally. etc. etc.

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