[driton]

Sounds very interesting, but the story seems to be behind a paywall. I found some other articles[0][1] related to the incident, however none of them seem to mention the flying of a hard drive across continents.

0: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-the-key-lesson-maer...

1: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/when-the-screens-went-bla...

[Eremotherium]

Or if you want the story as a podcast I can wholeheartedly recommend this episode (and the podcast in its entirety) of Darknet Diaries:

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/54/

[Rendello]

A similar podcast, Malicious Life, just released a two-part episode about it too:

https://malicious.life/episode/episode-106/

[pro_zac]

Seconded! Great story and amazing podcast.

[flobosg]

There’s a capture in the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20180822190926/https://www.wired...

[erikstarck]

Sorry about the paywalled article. Here’s a summary of the same article: https://www.chrislouie.net/blog/2018/9/10/better-to-be-lucky...