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The CEO Holds His Breath
In November 2018, the database gets breached. Nothing happens. In March 2019, around about six months later, they got hacked again. And unfortunately, it became obvious that they had been hacked because the hackers, when stealing the database, during the intrusion, they also crashed the database. So it's like, oh, we've got a problem here. It's a little obvious. The CEO knows that they've suffered a hack, but he's got another problem, which is that the company was in the process of being purchased by an investment firm. He held his breath and thought, let's hope the hackers don't do anything, because after all, our data has been properly encrypted with
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