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

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

25 points by stepstop 5 years ago | 3 comments

trocado 5 years ago |

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.

tdrp 5 years ago | |

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_hn 5 years ago | | |

Still it happens all the time, of course.