After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data

Re:After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 4... by FridgeSeal on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:10PM (#38355626)

Because half the time companies can’t be trusted to even admit there’s a leak, let alone the severity of it.

Groups that leak are likely to want to inflate the severity of the leak to ensure they get paid.

The larger a leak, the higher the probability there’s sensitive information in there, and the better opportunities/more time attackers had to exfiltrate it.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 4... by SahAssar on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:22PM (#38355741)

Agreed, but journalists need a better way to communicate. Saying 45GB sounds like a lot of emails to a technical person and nothing to someone who bought a bargain-bin 64GB USB memory stick the other day and filled it with a single HD movie.

The info says nothing, it conveys nothing. Even skipping the size and saying it leaked "emails" says more in the headline than the size.

A single video recording of an all-hands meeting could fill that size but it could also be emails containing the keys for accessing a large part of DOD.

[ Parent | on HN ]