<story><title>Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80M ransom demand</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/15/under-no-circumstances-will-we-pay-that-absurd-amount-royal-mail-tells-hackers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>personjerry</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fucking ridiculous to hit the postal service, providing a practically-free function to a lot of people who really need it, and operating at barely even (in US and Canada too, so I imagine other countries are similar).&lt;p&gt;The ransomers sound like kids, &amp;quot;speculating that the directors personally held 100m of crypto&amp;quot;? What a disgusting amateur job.</text></comment>
<story><title>Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80M ransom demand</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/15/under-no-circumstances-will-we-pay-that-absurd-amount-royal-mail-tells-hackers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ukoki</author><text>How is it even legal to pay ransoms? Surely this is transferring money to criminal enterprises. If it is not illegal it needs to be made illegal.</text></comment>