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My crew laptop got hit with ransomware on a Tuesday and we paid $400 to get 3 years of family photos back
Now I can't decide if paying the crooks was the dumbest thing we ever did or the only move that made sense at the time, so tell me straight: would you have paid up or told them to pound sand?
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alexw757d ago
400 bucks is rough but honestly that's cheap for 3 years of family pics. the thing people get wrong though is thinking there's one "right" answer here. it really comes down to whether you had backups, because if you didn't, you were kinda stuck between paying or losing everything forever. i've seen folks drop 2k on a crypto demand and still get nothing back, so at least yours actually delivered the files. the real lesson is that next time those photos need to live in two places, like an external drive plus a cloud thing. that way nobody gets to hold your memories hostage again.
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