I told him it was patient trial data. That’s why a low ransom. That’s why Novo didnt pay.
Is that true?
https://databreaches.net/2026/06/15/scoop-fulcrumsec-leaks-novo-nordisk-data-after-25m-demand-goes-unpaid/
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It’s difficult to monetize company secrets that the company won’t pay for; stuff that is completely legal. Research, patents and anti-competitive drug licensing such as is legal in the US depend on simple evidence that, “I did it first.” Traditionally in patents it’s “log books” where the researcher writes down the experiment completely with time and date. Total waste of time IMO, but I never wanted to make money from patents or inventions.
So I think the crackers are just trying to get a couple of bob out of all their effort. Anything they (the crackers) say is pure marketing, “We have all these Rolex watches for sale.” Etc.
As you say they do not seem to have any way to blackmail their victim, so their modus operandi is completely procreated. What they are doing now is attempting to minimize their losses; they spent a lot of time and got 1.3TByte of valueless data. Poor sods. If they lived in the real world they would have to pay someone to take it away. They’re most worried that Vlad will call them to the Big Window for wasting all those IP packets.
I forgot about this, John. Let me check if there have been any developments.
No new developments. We might not hear anything for a long, long time.