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On the 27th, a group of hackers who had illegally accessed the services of the GMO Internet Group and demanded money and other information about users published on the Internet. The company identifies the person involved in the unauthorized access…
Japanese public opinion
Reactions in the comment sections of related Japanese TV news videos on YouTube.
Positive / Negative toward: GMO's refusal to pay ransom and its reward for attacker information
Positive points
Paying would only invite more demands and attacks, so refusing is right.
Refusing is fine, but GMO still needs to handle victims properly and compensate them.
A bigger reward might draw insiders or the attackers out of hiding.
Negative points
GMO ignored known security warnings and should explain why it happened.
The reward and condolence payments are way too small to matter.
This bounty could end up with criminals or act as ransom in disguise.
This is not a random-sample survey. It covers only comments posted on these YouTube videos, which were classified and summarized by AI. The speech bubbles are AI-written paraphrases of common points, not quotes from actual comments.