Quote from: Don Pedro Dinero on December 13, 2023, 07:01:01 AM

So they want to get the 50 bitcoins anyway, either by paying the ransom or by selling the data themselves. What I hate about this kind of news is that bitcoin is in the media linked to scammers and hackers, which does not give a good image. Just as the media does not usually help because when the price was lower they criticized Bukele for buying bitcoin for El Salvador and now they are silent. I am referring to the main mass media.

Media are keen to negative events for reporting. Since media found out that reporting negative events caters to more readers than with positive events. So we should not be surprised to see the main media focusing on the negative events done not only using Bitcoin as a tool of payment and many other negative incidents.

Quote from: oktana on Today at 11:40:36 PM

True, they haven’t gotten the money yet, But if you look at the logic, it appears that they have the money anyways because they are already auctioning it for 50BTC. Anyways, it is not always Bitcoin. It is just that there are a lot of bad news around Bitcoin already. so you reading this triggers the idea that Bitcoin has been used for too many legal things, but there are other currencies that has been used too, The US dollar can testify to that. It’s sad that it’s happening to Bitcoin quite often but I think it’s unstoppable as there is no regulation or centralization.

They are in the process of auctioning the data, more or less they still don't hold any amount in exchange of the data yet. I wonder what would be the reaction of the company knowing that the hackers are betraying them by auctioning the data even before the negotiation has no result yet.

It is possible that the hacker can earn twice here, after the ransom is given, they can always sell the data to people secretly.