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Hello, how much to decrypt?

Hello gentlemen, thank you for your communication. This demand is very high for us. Please do send through the data tree so that we can review this

Thank you for this information. I have been quite shocked by your initial demand as i am just 1 man IT service provider and honestly these are figures that I have not even seen in my lifetime. I think that perhaps you have misunderstood who you have attacked and even the clients i serve are very small businesses and do not deal with figures like this, after all they work with me and I am just a 1 man band and nothing more. I cannot even imagine being able to afford $2 million, i wish that I could. Can you please reconsider this amount?

I am IT service provider, I have server for my clients and its only me. You access my network

I do not mind to pay but this figure is really unachievable. Even my clients they are small people, dentist, company that sells toys to kindergarten, retired consultant mostly working for themselves.

Hello gentlemen, unfortunately this demand is just not at all achievable. I simply have never seen this kind of money before. I really do want to work with you on this and come to a resolution but I am not in a position to produce money that either myself or my clients have ever been able to produce in our entire lives. I still think that you might be confused about who you have attacked, but if you take a look at my company and my client companies you will see that we are just small companies and we simply are not making millions, even $100,000 is something that we do not make in a year

I have spoken together with my small clients and looked myself into what I can manage to pay here and currently I am able to pull together $30,000 here for you. Please understand gentlemen that I am not being difficult here. My company is only myself, i have no other employees working with me, so i don't make hundred of thousands or millions of dollars. My clients are the same as me, all we are doing is working to pay our own salary, we are not big companies working to make big profits.

There is no such money

I mean no disrespect and I see how good you are at what you do and achieve through your work. I just do not understand where you think that I can find 2,000,000. This does not exist

If I have this money then maybe I will be sitting on a beach enjoying my life instead of working 12 hours a day on my own to maintain IT systems for small clients that pay very little for IT support because they themselves are not making much money

I do not disagree with you about the work that you do and the worth of it. You are very good at what you do, I can see this. Much better than me as a small IT guy.

$2,000,000 is just not possible for us

Unfortunately I have been able to raise up to $50,000 here but we just don't have millions. So we are unable to proceed here. It is disappointing that you still want to release data as this does not do more damage to us here given we do not have millions to be damaged. I was hoping we will meet an understanding here.

I met with my customers yesterday and confessed the overall situation to them in shame. I would take out 2 private loans and one of my clients can use his reserves so we can get a total of $123,238 together. Do you agree to this deal?

Okay, it's a shame that your management won't agree to this or at least be realistic about it. As I have already written, it is financially impossible to pay such an amount. I will therefore file for bankruptcy for my company and the customers will have to prepare their data manually. A possible publication of data is therefore irrelevant. Thank you very much for your time and your always friendly communication.

Hello

I spoke with support in TOX who agree to the offer of $100,000 here. Can you confirm this and send bitcoin wallet for payment?

Well noted, unfortunately this will mean we cannot move forward here. The person in this Tox ID is claiming to be lockbit, i would assume this is lies? 59052DE8288FE054576FB2D8ADE27E35AD9269F5AB4BED99BDC019B81D40B97

Ok Gentlemen, thank you for your time. Unfortunately i've only manage to come up with $100,000 here. You know my company and know that I cannot afford more, so unfortunately you have blocked us from coming to an agreement. I note the data is set to be published, this is of no consequence at this stage given no damage can be done here. I hope that your future endeavours are more fruitful for you.

Hello, now that data has been leaked, will you reconsider your figure only for decryption?