Will Garmin Pay $10m Ransom to End Two-Day Outage?(forbes.com)

25 pointsby stepstopvor 6 Jahren3 comments

Will Garmin Pay $10m Ransom to End Two-Day Outage?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/07/25/will-garmin-pay-10m-ransom-to-end-two-day-outage/#36b2da8e3164

4 comments

trocadovor 6 Jahren

If it matters, as a customer /user, I'd rather forego all my data on their cloud and wait whatever time is necessary for them to rebuild the systems, than have Garmin pay the ransom.

tdrpvor 6 Jahren

According to this TC article, it's basically illegal for a company to pay the ransom:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/25/garmin-outage-ransomware-s...

I sort of agree with that since if companies start paying up then suddenly that thing will be more and more widespread.

tinus_hnvor 6 Jahren

Still it happens all the time, of course.