But it clearly takes more to impress Boeing which, in addition to admitting to having been ransomed to the tune of $200 million by LockBit, indicates that it did not give in to blackmail over the disclosure of stolen data. This amount, although it seems exorbitant and is a priori the highest that LockBit has asked for, is not unusual if we look at the demands of Dmitry Khoroshev’s gang.
Between 2019, the year of its birth, and 2024, the group, considered the most harmful in the world, collected, according to the British government, 1 billion dollars in ransoms around the world, with amounts ranging from 5 to 70 million for those who have been confirmed. It is therefore not far-fetched to imagine that the 200 million claimed from Boeing are real, whether the aircraft manufacturer pays them or not.
We can cite for example the 10 million dollars requested from the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital (Essonne), later reduced to 2 million, the 60 million dollars in exchange for data from the British automobile retailer Continental, or even the 70 million in counterparty of very sensitive data concerning TSMC,
the chip supplier for Apple, Intel, NVIDIA and AMD.
