DOJ Recovers $2.3 Million Of Ransom Paid To DarkSide By Colonial Pipeline

(Washington, DC) — The Department of Justice is getting some of Colonial Pipeline’s money back. NBC News confirms they were able to recover two-point-three-million dollars of the ransom Colonial paid to DarkSide after obtaining the password to the hacker’s Bitcoin account. During a news conference, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said this isn’t the first time the government has seized cryptocurrency in connection to ransomware attacks. She noted severe attacks of that nature pose a clear and present danger to major corporations in the U.S.