US offers up to $15 million for information on Lockbit leaders, State Dept says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. is offering a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to the identification or location of the leaders of Lockbit, a a notorious cybercrime gang that holds its victims' data to ransom, the State Department said on Wednesday.

The U.S., UK and EU announced this week they had disrupted the group in a rare international law enforcement operation.

In a statement, the State Department said it would offer awards for "information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of any individual participating in a LockBit ransomware variant attack and for information leading to the identification and/or location of any key leaders of the LockBit ransomware group."

(Reporting by Katharine Jackson; writing by Paul Grant)