How My Mom Got Hacked is a description of an attack using Crypto Wall, a type of malware that encrypts your files then demands a ransom to decrypt them.
It's another possible way a Data Wars scenario could play out. Encourage a bunch of your guys to set up offensive operations like this and...well, that's really about it. Privateers didn't need to pay back their letters of marque; those were a help to their issuing government simply by decreasing enemy resources. (That it carried a negligible cost to that government was another advantage.)
Evidently there was a requirement for privateers to treat those captured "courteously and kindly." For reasons straightforward, and not necessarily altruistic, this is followed by the folks behind this aforementioned hack, too - when the payment was made just a little too late for reasons outside of Mom's control, the ransomers accepted it anyway, upon explanation.
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