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Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data | It's the second Las Vegas casino group to be attacked this week.::Caesars Entertainment reportedly paid "tens of millions of dollars" to hackers who threatened to release company data.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Paying these ransoms should just be illegal.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[-] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

Incentive. Now it's a business.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think it would stop them, but I guess it could be tried.

If it's important enough people would pay anyway (maybe in a more hidden way but nonetheless would pay).

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

If they can't get anything out of it, then they are just wasting their time with the chance of getting caught.

They will stop soon enough.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah... like making it illegal to buy drugs. It always works so well.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

well I think we're all in favor of opening rehabilitation clinics for rich corporations that decide to cut corners.

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