alt Hacker NewsIsn't 50k a bargain for what could potentially be in those files?
Maybe they looked it up and there wasn't anything interesting but then why take the risk for this kind of money?
Something doesn't make sense.
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deckar01 • yesterday at 8:47 PM
> this is not a ransom … Send your offers … we are not interested in under 50k…
It is a blind auction with a $50k minimum bid.
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The data has been stolen by a criminal group. Paying for "restoring" the data does not guarantee they will delete all copies. There is no way of proving they actually did and they have in fact very little incentive to actually delete it.
You have to take their words for it but how can you trust crooks?