US Department of Justice

“Scattered Spider has been involved in hacks resulting in more than $100m (£75m) in ransom payments, according to the DoJ.”

“The complaint alleges that, among other offences, he and other co-conspirators made a ransom demand of around $8m in cryptocurrency to a luxury jewellery retailer after stealing its data last year.”

“However, it added, the jewellery company lost at least $2m due to business disruption, investigation and mitigation of the threat.”