Boeing assessing Lockbit hacking gang threat of sensitive data leak

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Click here to see the summarySAN FRANCISCO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) said on Friday it was assessing a claim made by the Lockbit cybercrime gang that it had “a tremendous amount” of sensitive data stolen from the aerospace giant that it would dump online if Boeing didn’t pay ransom by Nov. 2. “For now we will not send lists or samples to protect the company BUT we will not keep it like that until the deadline,” the hacking group said. The hacking group typically deploys ransomware on a victim organization’s system to lock it up and also steals sensitive data for extortion. Lockbit was the most active global ransomware group last year based on the number of victims it claimed on its data leak blog, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The gang, whose eponymous ransomware was first seen on Russian-language-based cybercrime forums in January 2020, has made 1,700 attacks on U.S. organizations since then, CISA said in June. The hacking gang also did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent on an address it mentioned on its data leak site. — Saved 26% of original text.