Royal Mail’s recovery from ransomware attack will cost business at least $12M

Royal Mail's parent International Distributions Services has revealed for the first time the infrastructure costs associated with its January ransomware attack. LockBit's attack has driven costs up across various areas of the Brit business, but improvements to the corporation's Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre – the …

[Mr_Pitiful]

That's a big bill for....

Switching it off and on again + running a deep virus scan (forced company wide)

It might take a few days, but hey

[Julian 8]

should have stuck to pen and paper

No electronic ransomware then. Maybe the odd train robbery, but hey ho

[Tron]

Is it still going on?

Because I don't see how else it need take so effing long to get my parcels from the US through customs. You get a track scan from a parcel taking off for LHR and then toss all for a week or two.

[Snake]

Re: Is it still going on?

Ha-ha. A week for U.S. Customs? Is that all? I had to return items back to my U.K. vendor and it took UK Customs almost a full month to clear it, I thought it was lost along with the value therein.

[Clausewitz4.0]

Cost of decryption keys?

Was the cost of the decryption keys less than 2 million dollars? If so, are those guys real capitalists, to not see the benefits of paying the bad guys?

[Anonymous Coward]

My old man's a Postie

He said all the IT equipment was taken from every room in the sorting warehouse (Heathrow). All hand scanners, printers, routers, PCs taken away by IT. He said the printers were at one point spewing out the ransom demands.

He said the work is now similar to how it was 20/30 years ago. More manual lifting as his old office job doesn't exist until the computers come back.