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On 11/06/2021 22:02, Dave Sill wrote:<br>
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<div>On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 11:21 AM Dave Sill <<a
href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">sparge@gmail.com</a>>
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<div>From <a
href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-fbi-got-colonial-pipelines-ransom-money-back-11623403981"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-fbi-got-colonial-pipelines-ransom-money-back-11623403981</a>
which is paywalled:</div>
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<div><i>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.<br>
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Over the next 19 days, court records show, a
special agent watched on a publicly visible
bitcoin ledger as hackers transferred the 75
bitcoins to other digital addresses. <b>A May 27
transfer of nearly 64 bitcoins landed at a
virtual address to which the FBI gained access,
providing an opportunity to get a warrant and
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<div>As for how they did that, the likely answer is An0m,
their "secure" messaging app:</div>
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So why make this public now, eh? You'd think they would want to keep
this quiet. Making it public has to be a deliberate move, but why?<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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