What kind of idiots run this company??????????
UnitedHealth was hit in a data breach. They did exactly what you should not do. For fuck’s sake! You do not need to be a genius to fucking know what I’m going to fucking tell you here. If you guessed that I am mad, well, bingo! You win a prize, the prize of self-satisfaction.
Let me repeat what I’ve said before. It never pays to play the game of scammers. Where have I said it? In multiple places on this site, including the “Services That Ensure That All Your Private Data Has Been Deleted” section of this story:
I’ve also talked about it in this story:
What did UnitedHealth do? Well, they did this:
UnitedHealth reportedly paid the ransomware hacker group $22 million in a desperate bid to recover the stolen data and halt further exposure.
If the data had been removed from UnitedHealth servers, I can see the appeal of recovering the data. If it wasn’t, then there is nothing to recover, and there is no appeal whatsoever to cooperating with the scammers. However,
But in a bold move, the hackers reneged on the deal, pocketing the payout while keeping the data — leaving tens of millions of Americans’ information dangling on the dark web.
Yep, what I said might happen, did happen. Give me a crystal ball, will ya? An excellent use of capital. UnitedHealth got both diddly and squat for their effort.
Do note that you cannot ever know whether someone will actually delete the data that they promise they will delete. Furthermore, the risk of further exposure cannot be eliminated because you cannot ensure the deletion of the stolen data. Ensuring that the data has been deleted is as impossible to do as creating a perpetual motion machine!!!
Brilliant!
Just… brilliant!
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