Colonial Pipeline Ransom Recovered

2021-06-07Culture & Community

The US Department of Justice recovers $2.3 million in Bitcoin paid as ransom to the DarkSide hacking group in the Colonial Pipeline attack. Initial media claims that "Bitcoin was hacked" were wrong — the FBI obtained the private key from a US-based server, not by breaking Bitcoin's cryptography.

Wikipedia: Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack

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