U.S. Recovers $2.3 Million in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline | Read Less - Know All

U.S. Recovers $2.3 Million in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers

The federal government has recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to cybercriminals whose attack prompted the shutdown of the country’s largest fuel pipeline and gas shortages across the southeastern U.S. last month, the Department of Justice announced Monday. On May 8, Colonial Pipeline paid a ransom worth roughly $4.3 million in bitcoin to the Russia-based hacking group known as DarkSide, which had used malicious software to hold the company hostage.



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