And what did the pair discuss? Fortunately, this obscure document gives us a much fuller picture. If you’ve ever wondered what it sounds like to be in the room while cybercriminals do their thing, it sounds something like this:

SOHAIB: “Still connected? Still on the VPN?”

SOHAIB : “Delete all their databases?”

MUNEEB : “Eh, they can recover them…backups, I’m pretty sure.”

SOHAIB : “Daily backups?”

MUNEEB : “Yup.”

SOHAIB : “What’s the plan [then]? We gonna take care of severance or are we gonna do something about…” “Should we retort to whatever they send us by saying we need $25,000 each? Hm?”

MUNEEB : “We are doing petty shit now.”

MUNEEB : “I’m going to wipe my computer clean.”

SOHAIB : “I can’t access the system but I still have the email address for their customers for eCase and FOIAXpress.”

MUNEEB and SOHAIB discuss being compensated by Company-1.

MUNEEB : “I’m not gonna threaten them shit, that’s like could be shown as some sort of . . .”

SOHAIB : “It depends on how you write it.…