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Well it's exactly what happened here.

> The university said its staff restored from backups; however, the ransomware gang threatened to release student-related data online, which, in turn, made university management re-think their approach towards not paying the attackers.

The university is paying them not to release the data, but it has no way of forcing them to delete it.



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