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CanSpice on March 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Basecamp was under network attack

Does anybody know how many companies, upon receiving a blackmail "give us $300 or you'll be DDoSed" email, pay it? For every meetup.com or Basecamp that resist, how many actually give in to the blackmailer's demands?

cmdkeen on March 24, 2014 [–]

It isn't $300, it's "up to $50,000"[0]

I've seen articles before saying online gambling websites often do pay up as the downtime isn't just lost revenue but customers going elsewhere.

[0] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/4/prweb9455636.htm

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