Post
Topic
Board Economics
Re: Official says US seized cryptocurrency ransom paid to Colonial Pipeline hackers
by
Kittygalore
on 08/06/2021, 06:48:35 UTC
According to this article they got the hacker's private key: https://californianewstimes.com/us-says-it-has-recovered-large-portion-of-colonial-pipeline-ransom/383269/
Unclear how, but it mentions some servers being seized, so maybe they got access to a physical device. Or perhaps they got malware onto the device or there was a cooperating exchange.
That's actually pretty cool and scary at times because it can help deter the criminal activity in the cryptospace but at the same time when being held by a nefarious hands, this way of seizure could mean that any user in cryptospace is going to be on the cross hairs of that entity and it's only a matter of time.