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by not2b 459 days ago
It was already disclosed to the bad guys that someone managed to break their encryption, when they didn't get paid and they saw that the customer had somehow managed to recover their data. That probably meant they might go looking for weaknesses, or modify their encryption, even without this note.

Other victims whose data were encrypted by the same malware (before any updates) could benefit from this disclosure to try to recover their data.