How Did Federal Officials Recover $2.3M in Bitcoin Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers?

Name: How Did Federal Officials Recover $2.3M in Bitcoin Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers?
Uploaded: 2021-06-08T17:48:15Z
Duration: 3 min 211 s
Description: Department of Justice and FBI officials say they recovered $2.3 million in bitcoin (BTC) Colonial Pipeline paid to a criminal outfit during a ransomware attack. Nikhilesh De, CoinDesk’s Global Policy and Regulation Managing Editor, is looking into how the funds were recovered.

Jun 8, 2021

Department of Justice and FBI officials say they recovered $2.3 million in bitcoin (BTC) Colonial Pipeline paid to a criminal outfit during a ransomware attack.

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