The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) The United States said that the bureau employees were able to find a virtual wallet of hackers from the Darkside group hacking Colonial Pipeline, reports Associated Press.
“We found a virtual wallet with a cryptocurrent, which faces from Darkside were used to obtain funds from the victim. Using law enforcement authority, we confiscated to the victim of the funds and did not allow them to use them from Darkside,” the first deputy director of the FBI Paul Ebbeit said .
In addition, the Bureau has established a DarkSide connection with more than 90 cases of hacker attacks in the United States. “In this case, the FBI found more than 90 victims in a number of sectors of critical infrastructure, including production, jurisprudence, insurance, health and energy,” Ebbeit explained.
The US Department of Justice also noted that from more than $ 4 million redemption, which Colonial Pipeline was forced to pay hackers, most of the amount managed to return.