You are not oversimplifying things a bit? scrapped html files from internal systems that have confidential information might be very valuable, you might not dump the database, but you can dump the information by scraping it and exporting to html. I’m not sure they have something of value but it is a valid method of…

What a waste of calories has been to read this article...

I know that they where attacked and had to act fast, but they could have tested the rules before applying them. Nevertheless, following information security common sense we have to give more weight to confidentiality and integrity (thus privacy) before availability, shutting down the service would have been a less…