Thats a pretty nice payday for not really doing anything all day. I am pretty sure that the hacker mightve paid for the ransom software so he might be in the negative right now.
What is kind of surprising to me is that these people have Bitcoin already installed or they have already verified their profiles on Bitcoin Exchanges that allowed them to pay the ransom. That was really fast considering how Bitcoin is pretty new to the scene, somebody should fire the tech guy.