The apology came after journalist Kevin wrote a story in the Daily Mail alongside fellow reporters Georgia Edkins and Michael Powell.<\/p>\n
In their message, Conti even praised the Mail for the “great coverage”.<\/p>\n
“It was extraordinary” Kevin says. “I\u202fdidn’t\u202fexpect them to compliment me for my work.”<\/p>\n
Graff handed\u202fover a ransom of around $7.5m, but did not respond to the BBC’s requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Conti’s internal\u202fchats\u202fshow one of the hackers, who claims to have been part of the Graff job, boasting about getting about 1% of the payout, $75,000, with which he would build a house.<\/p>\n
The Graff attack happened in late October 2021 and things seemed to be going well for Conti.<\/p>\n
As the boss Stern put it, “none of the other notorious\u202fencryptors\u202fare left now”.<\/p>\n
But Mango, the usually calm office manager, was getting frustrated.<\/p>\n
“Honestly,” they told Stern, “I try to solve all your crazy extravagant quests but I get the strong feeling\u202fyou\u202fdon’t\u202fcare\u202fat all.<\/p>\n
“I’ve\u202fspent my whole life getting all this organized and rolling it out.<\/p>\n
“At this rate, I’ll\u202fbe grey in a year or two.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The apology came after journalist Kevin wrote a story in the Daily Mail alongside fellow reporters Georgia Edkins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}