Note Gossi's "If". There's no indication so far wrt possible payment.
Ransomed by Jeff Bezos.
Do you mean stolen by Jeff Bezos, or to imply that AWS has another copy of the data?
There's nothing "likely" about it.
> On Friday 16 May we discovered the attack was more extensive than originally understood and that the group behind it had accessed a large amount of information relating to legal aid applicants.
> We believe the group has accessed and downloaded a significant amount of personal data from those who applied for legal aid through our digital service since 2010.
> This data may have included contact details and addresses of applicants, their dates of birth, national ID numbers, criminal history, employment status and financial data such as contribution amounts, debts and payments.
source: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/legal-aid-agency-data-bre...