Originally Posted by nross1978

The way I see it is, if you give in once they will know that you are a easy target if enough pressure is applied, So why pay up?

Yes that is true, what happened to Protonmail was that they were attacked by DDoS attack by a group, paid the ransom then two other groups stared attacking " these subsequent attacks have reached 40-50 Gbps" demanding much higher ransom. which Protonmail refused to pay instead they added DDoS protection to ProtonMail. And no more attackers