https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/11/notpetya_insurance_claim/100 million seems excessive. Can anyone explain to me how someone "loses" 24,000 laptops and 1,700 servers? Isn't standard recovery process reformat the Hard Drives and reinstall? Even if they had to buy new hard drives for the laptops and reinstall a new image, I estimate the cost around $100 a laptop, So that's around 2.5 million dollars, some specialized software re-installs could push that number up another 500k. Than the servers, even at a thousand dollars recovery cost per server, you looking at 1.7 million, thus the cost of recovery I put at around 5 million dollars. True there loss of business that would be many times that amount, but the insurance policy is for loss of hardware, not loss of business. Do they really expect us to believe they simply tossed 1,700 servers and 24,000 laptops in the trash and brought new?
