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AT&T’s $300K Hacker Hush Money: The Pricey Delete-It Dance with ShinyHunters
Dial ‘R’ for Ransom: AT&T coughs up $300K to ShinyHunters—less talk, more crypto action. Because when hackers go phishing, sometimes you pay for ‘delete’ instead of ‘data’. #HackerHangup
Hot Take:
Well, it looks like AT&T might have just set the "How to Deal with Hackers" handbook on fire. Instead of channeling their inner Liam Neeson with a "I will find you, and I will secure my servers" approach, they went full on Oprah with their checkbook – "You get a bitcoin! You get a bitcoin! Everybody gets a bitcoin!" Yes, folks, they paid a member of ShinyHunters over $300K to pinky promise he deleted tens of millions of customers' call records. It's like paying for a magic show where the only trick is your data disappearing. Abracadabra, indeed.
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