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Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 42 points 1 day ago

However, the hacker(s) indicated, that should Schneider publicly admit to this latest data breach, the ransom would be cut in half. Thus, the ransom demanded would decrease to $62,500 worth of baguettes, we would presume. Even with a 50% deduction, that’s still a lot of dough.