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pretzel5297today at 5:58 PM5 repliesview on HN

So you would rather take your business to somewhere that got hacked, didn't pay the ransom, and got customer data leaked?


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delichontoday at 6:00 PM

Yes, particularly if they are transparent about it.

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tadfishertoday at 6:03 PM

The customer data is already leaked, unless your threat model somehow includes trusting threat actors to keep said data confidential in perpetuity.

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aetchtoday at 6:08 PM

If you believe the hackers didn’t keep a copy of the data, you’re the target market.

jsLavaGoattoday at 6:02 PM

Both of them got hacked so... yes.

latexrtoday at 6:40 PM

Theoretically, if it happened before and the ransom wasn’t paid, there’s both an incentive by the service to improve their security practices and a disincentive on the hackers to target that business.