So to recap: 1. Ransomware crime team hacks Colonial Pipeline 2. Shortages due entirely to panic buying ripple across East Coast 3. FBI obtains secret crime key in unclear circumstances 4. FBI agent bites into donut and hits 'return' key, recovering significant chunk of ransom
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I don't know who will star in this heist movie, but the soundtrack will be Yakety Sax
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Now I have to put an asterisk in all my anti-Bitcoin rants explaining that this so-called currency is only useful for ransomware [*provided you do not give the secret key to the FBI]
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I don't know much about criming, but if I headed this crew I'd be awfully interested in talking to whoever got the 11.2496 BTC payment herepic.twitter.com/DcdSYsQL3O
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We'll know ransomware is here to stay when they start asking for 69.99 BTC, to make it psychologically easier for Accounts Ransomable to cut a check
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How... do they have it...?
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That's the 63 BTC question right there
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How they can know the private key..?
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If the hackers were foreign, the NSA could have snooped and decrypted their web traffic or something.
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I missed the part about no pants! Not just how—I also wonder WHEN they got that private key!
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