Why Do Ransomware Victims Pay for Data Deletion Guarantees?

Paying for Promises That Can't Be Audited Paints a Repeat-Attack Target on Victims
Many ransomware-wielding attackers are expert at preying on their victims' compulsion to clean up the mess. Witness victims' continuing willingness to pay a ransom - separate to a decryptor - in return from a promise from extortionists that they will delete stolen data. As if.

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