Yacht dealer to the stars attacked by Rhysida ransomware gang The Rhysida ransomware group claims it was responsible for the cyberattack at US luxury yacht dealer MarineMax earlier this month. MarineMax, which posted multibillion-dollar revenues last year, disclosed a cyberattack to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 10, saying portions of its business were disrupted …
Why, do you think it's OK for criminals to attack people as long as the victims are rich?
No I do not.
I just don't feel very sorry for these particular victims. My apologies if that wasn't clear in my original post.
Whether something is illegal or not and whether the offenders should be pursued or not have nothing to do with my personal level of sympathy for victim. I guess that's how some people must think, though...
because a common perception of most average / not-rich people is that 'rich' people, with some exceptions, got there by hook or by crook. Well, the terms ARE fluid, if I'm jobless, a 'tesco check-out girl', well, more like an 'elderly gentleman' thesed days is 'rich'. And to a person watching his overloaded dinghy steadily gather water, in the middle the English Channel, a jobless, passportful Brit, is rich beyond their dreams, so it depends in which dinghy you sit. And what you call 'crook' I call 'a successful execution of knowledge-based approach to solving complex tax-related dillemas by application of some lesser-known legal interpretations of certain multi-layered alternative solutions to the mainstream approach'.
What I find disappointing is not the above perception (rich bastards, serves them right), but that, as soon as majority of 'not rich', due to luck, quick witts, or any other reason, get a chance to 'get rich', they go through a magic transformation and 'by hook or by crook' becomes a 'nonono, you misunderstand, what I'm doing is fully legit'.
Almost worth a government tax fraud agency buying the data to see if it reveals any juicy "secret" accounts & other tax evasion info from some of the high net worth individuals on the yacht list.
Not the UK obviously, as they would sooner get tiny amounts of cash from pursuing benefit fraud (even though fraud < unclaimed benefits by a long way in UK) & generally look the other way at any activities of the super rich, or at most give them such a weedy slap on the wrist that its more akin to a handshake.
Dr. Evil: and as we speak our agents are infiltrating the private lives of the powerful people, posing as maids, butlers, advisors and even pool boys. After years of surveillance, we will have enough to blackmail and control them, thereby ruling the world! (Pinky to mouth) Hmmm?
Scott: why don’t we just buy a hacked database?
Dr. Evil: Please forgive my son Scott, he’s inexperienced. Shut up Scott!
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