Did CDK Have to Pay to Keep Data Disclosure Quiet?

With the recent CDK outage, it's broadly believed that they had no backups and resorted to paying the ransom on #ransomware in order to get a key and get their data restored. Someone proposed the idea that they might have been breached, had the data stolen and paid a blackmailer to keep them from releasing the data into the wild. Does this story make sense? Why or why not?

#hack #security #informationtechnology #breach

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