Guess where part of your money is going to…

Should be noted that a lot of companies have absolutely no idea what was actually stolen due to insufficient logging.

Talking to the threat actor usually means getting some of the required info for GDPR.

He was not arrested for privacy, there are huge open groups on Telegram for piracy, csam and cyber criminals.

These groups are not encrypted, everything is stored in plain text on their servers. He is being arrested for not removing/moderating this content.

Honestly not what I have seen with some big companies. Even after getting hit with ransomware they just continue working as if it has never happened.

Last time I checked most games were cheaper when bought physically in comparison to digitally.

There are sas harddrives which support SATA. They are however very rare.

Depends. If there’s a SATA logo on the front then yes.

If not it’s probably not supported.

Honestly depends on what he’s hosting… Services like shodan are constantly scanning the web and are trying to see what is actually running in the machine.

If he’s serving something that’s vulnerable and has rce it won’t take too long for him to get automatically pwned.

We’ve seen this with the hafnium Echange vulnerability and all known vulnerable public facing web apps that used log4j.

Regarding the LastPass breach, the second part of the breach was using a very outdated version of Plex. Chances are high that his home machine was already hacked by other malicious actors.