U.S. recovers $2.3 million in ransom paid to Colonial Pipeline hackers - CBS News

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. Read More

Bitcoin tumbles after Colonial Pipeline ransom tracked

Late Monday, the Department of Justice announced that investigators were able to recover most of the ransom, about $2 million, paid to hackers who interrupted operations at Colonial Pipeline last ... Read More

US investigators recover a ‘majority’ of bitcoin ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline to Russian hackers - The Independent

Last month, Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount revealed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that his company paid about $4.4 million in ransom in Bitcoin to DarkSide, a ransomware hacker ... Read More

Cryptocurrency ransom paid in Colonial Pipeline hack mostly recovered - USA TODAY

Federal authorities dealt a blow to a criminal hacking group that forced the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline, recovering the "majority" of the $4.4 million in cryptocurrency ransom paid to ... Read More

FBI Used Hackers' Bitcoin Password to Recover Colonial Pipeline Ransom - Business Insider

The DOJ seized $2.3 million of the ransom that Colonial Pipeline paid to the hacking group DarkSide. The FBI tracked the payments to a bitcoin wallet, for which it happened to have the password. Read More

Colonial Pipeline CEO: Ransom payment among my ‘toughest decisions’

Blount’s testimony marks his first appearance before Congress since the May 7 ransomware attack that led Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, which supplies roughly half the fuel consumed on the ... Read More

How the FBI got Colonial Pipeline’s ransom money back

After Colonial Pipeline Co. on May 8 paid roughly $4.4 million in cryptocurrency to hackers holding its computer systems hostage, the Federal Bureau of Investigation followed the digital money. Read More

US recovers most of ransom paid after Colonial Pipeline hack - News4JAX

The Justice Department has recovered the majority of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment to hackers after a cyberattack that caused the operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline to halt ... Read More

US Recovers $2.3 Million In Ransom Paid To Colonial Pipeline Hackers - News On 6

US 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 ... Read More

US investigators recover the majority of ransom Colonial Pipeline paid to hackers

The DOJ’s recovery effort was carried out alongside the FBI and Colonial Pipeline, and began shortly after the ransom was paid to the DarkSide criminal enterprise group, which is believed to ... Read More

US 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 ... Read More

US recovers most of ransom paid after Colonial Pipeline hack - Tampa Bay Times

Colonial Pipeline temporarily shut down its operations on May 7 after a gang of cybercriminals broke into the company’s computer system. US recovers most of ransom paid after Colonial Pipeline hack ... Read More