“If the $200 million figure is accurate, it would be one of the very highest ransom demands ever made by cyber-extortionists.”
Boeing only confirmed the $200 million figure after the Justice Department indictment of Dmitry Khoroshev described “Victim-15” as a Virginia aerospace and defense company. LockBit dumped about 43GB of Boeing data when the deadline passed. Boeing says the breach hit its parts and distribution business and never touched flight safety. The public learned the size of the ransom from a prosecutor, not from the defense contractor that got hacked.