Lawyers always ask for way more money than they expect to get. In almost every situation like this in the past they settle for 10% of the amount and everyone walks away happy.

This is like the endless use of maximum sentences in headlines: "hacker faces 100 years in prison!"... when they almost always end up getting <10yrs at the end of the trial. Sad to see HN fall into this trap once again.

Whether he's wrong in demanding compensation is a fair debate, don't get me wrong, but I don't think he expects to get anywhere near that price.