I read this title as, "Company of professional addiction manipulators and compulsion maximisers, pays $15M ransom to probably-more ethical group"
Lots of related discussion over here yesterday where an article on MGM mentioned the Caesars report also:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37572518">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37572518</a>
Paying ransoms should be a criminal offense. Even if the victim company would end up bankrupt that would be an acceptable outcome to keep money out of the hands to criminals.