{"id":6530,"date":"2021-06-08T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6530"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:59:23","slug":"u-s-recovers-most-of-the-ransom-payment-in-pipeline-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/u-s-recovers-most-of-the-ransom-payment-in-pipeline-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Recovers Most Of The Ransom Payment In Pipeline Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said investigators had &#8220;found and recaptured&#8221; about 63.7 bitcoin worth $2.3 million, which she said was &#8220;the majority&#8221; of the ransom paid by Colonial pipeline to DarkSide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although this appears to be an important victory in the United States ongoing fight against various attacks by malware gangs, Colonial Pipeline chief Joseph Blount said in a statement that his company is grateful for the &#8220;swift work and professionalism&#8221; of the FBI, which has played a critical role in recovering the ransom.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-57394041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S has recovered around $2.3 million of the ransom paid by Colonial pipeline to DarkSide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}