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Pay the ransom, hackers then sell the data privately

Don’t pay the ransom, hackers release a subset to the public for free, then sell the rest privately

Good on Quantas for not negotiating, bad on them for shit security.



> Good on Qantas for not negotiating

they probably didnt feel that there was a threat, as privacy of their customer's data wasn't very high on their priority list - after all, they didnt secure that data very well in the first place leading to the stolen data!




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