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...