Re: FBI says it recovered $2 million in Bitcoin Ransomware payment... How?

Quote from: HashFace on June 07, 2021, 11:37:27 PM

Talking about this with friends. FBI doesn’t give any details, of course, but says they traced it to a Wallet and seized it. How do you think they got it back?

Our theories are:

-Traced it to an exchange, Forced it to be turned over
-Hacked the hackers
-Cracked the encryption

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/07/cryptocurrency-ransom-paid-colonial-pipeline-hack-mostly-recovered/7589909002/

If FBI managed to get the private keys of thhe hackers wallet then they no need to dump the reason, atleast they will say that bitcoin is not safe anymore since they managed to breach private keys.

Either the hacker made a mistake by sending the money to centralized exchanges or the government itself just framing in that way due to extra pressure.