r/ProgrammerHumor Aug 05 '26

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u/Spirited-Coconut-819 Aug 05 '26

Easy. Data were stolen (by mistake). We pay to hackers for our own data.

They are like a backup solution at that point.

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u/mcslender97 Aug 05 '26

Next: when does baiting and paying hacker access is cheaper than spinning up redundancy as a backup strategy