“It is all but desperation and a leap of faith and keeping one’s fingers crossed that the criminals are people of their word,” Robert Siciliano, CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com, told NBC News. “When engaging criminals in a demand of extortion, an individual or company would be doing this as a last resort because they didn’t protect their data in the first place, they hadn’t backed up the information, or the data that could be leaked was disparaging.”
via Can Uber trust the hackers who deleted the stolen data? Experts weigh in. – NBC News
