Petya apparently disguised itself as ransomware but its aim was not to extort money. Analyses by IT security companies Kaspersky and Comae Technologies show that the malware did not encrypt data on the affected systems but instead deleted it. For the parties concerned, paying the ransom or contacting the attackers would have been useless. The Posteo address specified in connection with the attack was immediately blocked by Posto on Tuesday at midday, before the attack spread. The attackers did not replace the blocked address with another one.”]