Security News > 2023 > November > Impatient LockBit says it's leaked 50GB of stolen Boeing files after ransom fails to land

The LockBit crew is claiming to have leaked all of the data it stole from Boeing late last month, after the passenger jet giant apparently refused to pay the ransom demand.

Neither data dump has been verified by The Register, and Boeing declined to answer specific questions about the incident or the stolen files.

"I haven't gone over the whole data set but Boeing emails and a few others stand out as useful for those with malicious intent," Alvieri told The Register.

LockBit first listed the aircraft giant on its dark-web site on October 28, and on November 2 Boeing confirmed to The Register it had suffered an IT intrusion.

By then the ransomware crew had removed Boeing from its leaks site and told the malware librarians at VX Underground that it was negotiating with the US corporation.

It appears that the negotiations failed - or possibly the multinational determined that the criminals hadn't accessed any sensitive info, and thus it wouldn't pay to pay the extortion demand, or no talks ever actually took place - and Boeing is now back on the LockBit extortion website.

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