Wishful thinking

from here and here

The sellers are telling Twitter to buy their data back before someone else does. A ransom by any other name would smell as dirty, but I can't help but think these cybercrime chuckleheads are barking up the wrong tree. Twitter might not even be around long enough for the European Union to find them guilty of a GDPR violation over this. 

So much for 'easy money'

from here and here

I have never heard of victims getting their bitcoins back, but apparently it may be a possibility in this one particular case and frankly my mind is blown. If this becomes widespread then using bitcoin for criminal purposes is going to get harder. And that's a good thing.