They want 6 million for the stolen data. The airport has made a decision

Criminals demand $6 million in bitcoins from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport operator for documentswhich they managed to steal in a cyberattack last month. This week, they posted their haul on the dark web and made demands. The airport has already made a decision on how to proceed in this particular case.

The Port of Seattle, which owns and manages the airport, decided not to pay compensation.

– we read in the official statement.

It was decided that paying the ransom in this case would not be a good use of taxpayer money. The airport had previously linked the incident to a ransomware gang called Rhysida. The case was turned over to the FBI, which is investigating. It appears that the airport managed to stop the attack, but the hackers intercepted some data and encrypted it.

On Monday, criminals posted copies of eight files stolen from the systems on the darknet and demanded 100 bitcoins for them.

– explains Lance Lyttle, managing director of aviation at the airport.

Lyttle did not say what kind of documents he was referring to, but assured that the airport will contact any passenger whose personal data may have been stolen.

The airport is still recovering from the attack that began Aug. 24, which occurred during a busy period a week before the Labor Day long weekend.

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