[gurchik]

> Why would they pay ransomware hackers when they would obviously have backups. Sucks to have data compromised, but presumably it's not lost.

It's been more than a month. I think if it was this easy, they would be online by now. They said on their blog they will only begin to restore some functionality in January. A business could consider paying the random to avoid two months of downtime. Although in this case they didn't have the option to pay it.