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[–] tal@lemmy.today 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The article says that they weren't paying to recover their only copy of data, but to prevent it from being leaked:

to prevent stolen data from being leaked

Backups (or more backups) wouldn't have helped.