Hopefully, attacks like this will lead to greater social acceptance of refusal of routine data collection.
"The University of Utah revealed today that it paid a ransomware gang $457,059 in order to avoid having hackers leak student information online.
The incident is the latest in a long string of ransomware attacks where criminal groups steal sensitive files from the hacked companies before encrypting their files; and in case victims refuse to pay, threaten to release the stolen documents as a second extortion scheme."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-utah-pays-457000-to-ransomware-gang/
"The University of Utah revealed today that it paid a ransomware gang $457,059 in order to avoid having hackers leak student information online.
The incident is the latest in a long string of ransomware attacks where criminal groups steal sensitive files from the hacked companies before encrypting their files; and in case victims refuse to pay, threaten to release the stolen documents as a second extortion scheme."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-utah-pays-457000-to-ransomware-gang/