Hacker group LockBit, which hacked Royal Mail in the UK, demanded about $80 million in ransom. The newspaper writes about it Finance Times.
According to the publication, the post office negotiated with the hackers for more than three weeks. The attackers claimed 0.5% of the annual revenue of International Delivery Services, which includes Royal Mail.
The post office’s representative replied that the organization would “under no circumstances” pay the specified amount.
This is an amount that can never be taken seriously by our board,” he said.
If the negotiations failed, a group of hackers threatened to release large amounts of Royal Mail data.
formerly Bloomberg reportedHe said that on the anniversary of the start of the riots in Bahrain as part of the Arab Spring, hackers attacked the Bahrain airport.