I'm sure I late with this and maybe I did miss it......the 5 million ransom WAS PAID???

[a kennedy]

I thought I heard they weren’t going to pay a ransom.

[unconventional]

1. that's what it sounds like

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-13/colonial-pipeline-paid-hackers-nearly-5-million-in-ransom

[a kennedy]

2. Yikes......welcome unconventional.....and thanks, but I thought at one point I heard that

they weren’t going to pay it, and again welcome to DU.

[Lochloosa]

3. More than likely yes. Most companies do.

[underpants]

4. As do city governments

Heard a report on NPR about this just a few weeks ago. These hackers tend to ask for amounts of money that aren’t a stretch. Cities and companies often just figure it’s better to pay and get it over with. $5M for the pipeline owners isn’t that much.

[Lochloosa]

5. I'm pretty sure my company was hit. It's one of the top 100 private companies in the US.

We had a 36 hour "outage" from our servers a while back. Then poof, we were back up. No explanation, no updates etc. Very weird.

Losing access to our servers was a huge deal for my company. I'm sure it cost them more than the ransom that was asked.