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Hackers Behind Colonial Pipeline Attack Received $90 Million in Bitcoin Ransom Payments

DarkSide, the hacker group behind the Colonial Pipeline attack, received $90 million in bitcoin over the last 9 months, according to the London-based blockchain analysts at Elliptic.

After identifying and analyzing the wallet used by DarkSide, Elliptic found that the hacker group received $90 million in bitcoin from a total of 47 distinct wallets.

Colonial Pipeline reportedly paid $5 million to the hackers before announcing it would restart its operations again.

The largest US refinery shut two crude units in Port Arthur, Texas a couple weekends ago after hackers caused the Colonial Pipeline to shut down.

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5 thoughts on “Hackers Behind Colonial Pipeline Attack Received $90 Million in Bitcoin Ransom Payments”

  1. If they had hired IT Security professionals and listened to them – they would still have some of that money…and some ITSecurity professionals with good creds!

    1. What do you think Hunter has been giving information to? It all comes back to politicians, who is watching their earnings?

      Think of this – Capone put in jail for life over 2million dollar tax evasion – now he deserved it… WHo else would be in jail for that in the political world?

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