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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by monocasa on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:01PM (#27148035)
To be fair, that was Iranian money in the first place that had been frozen.
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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by briandear on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:04PM (#27148064)
It was still a ransom. “I’ll give you money, you release our hostages.”
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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by jjoonathan on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:26PM (#27148275)
"I'll give you [back your] money, you release our hostages" -- but that doesn't fit the agenda as well, does it?
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