Suppose you were just notified that your company has experienced a major data breach. You've lost customer records including usernames, email addresses, passwords, addresses, and phone numbers for all 500,000 of your customers. Suppose the attackers contact you and offer to destroy all records, tell no one about the data breach, and show you how to patch the security hole. The only trick is, they want to be hired as a "consultant" and have $600,000 deposited into their European bank account. Would you pay the "consulting" fee? Justify your decision.
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No we must contact the police and inform about the breach and the call we received so that the truth in the matter can be investigated and the culprits canbe caught. If we calmly pay what they ask, they might continue to blackmail us in future or create much more problem . Hence we need to take legal action so that we do not stand as culprits in the eyes of our customers and also the attackers who are responsible for this situation will be punished. This is also the ethical way to handle the situation. Hence we should not pay the fee as demanded.
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