Department of Justice recovered a majority of the ransom paid to the hacker group DarkSide in the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack.
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Finally, DOJ is able to do their job! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
@13bustah
Ah the victimized antagonists.
I LOVE YOU GUYS. Now clutch your pearls B. Lmfao
@Billy Pardew No it was the Russians.
@Fred A Idk why I read this as a tik tok 😆🤣 I’m sorry 😆🤣
@13bustahGive all your money to Trump so he can pay his legal bills.
Yup, the former Florida blogger can’t fire inspectors general and FBI agents who investigate Russians any longer.
YAY FOR THE DOJ!
This is great!! Get em.
Liberals are so naive and unintelligent it’s embarrassing 😳
@The Tweatles <-- Known moronic bot with multiple sockpuppets. Do not feed.
Imagine how much more we could do if our government had the support it needs. If more people would get out and vote, we could see more progress like this.
We need to come up with a way to fry their systems when they attempt a ransom ware attack.
If they were that easy to detect, they would never be successful in the first place. They are often working their way around systems for months before they attack.
@Craig H Lol ….you blaming widows 7….
@PhilLesh69 Nope. Extremely informed with a basis in truth. Truth is reality. You’ll learn.
@Deborah Freedman Probably wasn’t your bank, then. lol. Did you think that every other bank used the same exact systems you used? Maybe they were diebold or EDS ATMs. Could have even been something a regional bank put together in house.
@Heritage Karma lol. ok buddy. you send a “spike” into their system using the two copper wires that connect your computer to theirs. lol. oh boy.
Sounds like they’re finally going on the offensive thank goodness.
@Adam Parisi While Trump cannot even pronounce “Thailand,” and was rambling during his appearance in North Carolina: “Together we will defund our freedoms.”
“…suspended removals, and even removeables, removals of just horrible, horrible…”
Yeah, sounds like Trump is the one suffering from dementia.
@Adam Parisi Welfare check? That’s interesting !
@Reg U REPORT all of them. How did you connect THOSE ?
@The Tweatles Hi William 🙄
@Adam Parisi99
Good job DOJ‼️👏👏👏
Yes, Get em.
Yes. Agreed.
Good job DOJ!
GREAT WORK THANKS
Good! Bitcoin is traceable. This is great news.
@Ian Carolan So is paper US dollars. Good luck buying most things with Bitcoin.
@Mr. White Indeed bitcoin is a young technology. Ultimately no one can eat bitcoin, gold, silver, gems or paper currency even when they actually have those things in their hand.
@Ian Carolan See…..gold and silver will always have value. It had value for 1000’s of years before we were around and it will continue to have value for 1000’s of years. I’m trying to get someone to explain this to me. Bitcoin is worth $34,000 as I type this. What happens if tomorrow, the US dollar is completely dead and there is no more US dollar, what do you value Bitcoin against?
@Mr. White You can cash out the Bitcoin at any exchange.
@Device Detective That didn’t answer my question. I’m aware you can cash out. Re-read what I wrote.
Good job DOJ 👏👏at least we have the government who is working for the American 🇺🇸 go DOJ
No foolin’. Refreshing.
Good to have a DOJ that doesn’t side with the attackers!
@karan dilday you’re completely wrong. Link some proof if that’s the case? Otherwise you are spouting vile filth and attacking us Americans who are trying live in a democracy. You people are so pathetic and it’s sad.
You are so selfish and insecure that you allow people to lie to you, show no proof, and then claim real proof is fake without any evidence. Have some respect for yourself, you’re still a human being.
Progressive Humanist
US Dept. Of Justice: “We Do Not Negotiate With Terrorists”
US Capitol Terrorists: “Says Who”.
You mean one of Bill Barr that should be disbarred, and put behind bar and never allowed to be in a bar, or given a chocolate bar behind bar?
@Oyberg Veystein Austin Millbarge
Why is the DOJ acting on behalf of a private corporation who poisons us with their pipeline leaks? And why are people cheering for this?
This is a good new, “enough is enough”.
This wouldn’t have been possible under the last administration. If more people would get out and vote, we could see more progress like this.
@Fred A All true.
@Fred A How?
WOW! A DOJ solving cases now and letting those involved will be found and caught. Way to go show the American people that you are here for them.
It’s been a long time right?!
Hard to believe. Lol.
Score one for the home team. Let’s see alot more of this. That was defensive. How about a little offense now.
A lot.
The DOJ is again able to go after these ransomware cretins, they are finally getting back to what they do without someone at the helm stopping them. Go get ’em!
Stopping them???😮
Helping them!😲 you’re right…
Cretins! 👍
She’s good. I do think that Colonial Pipeline needs to pay for this investigation. They are getting their money back, but we paid to get it back. Big businesses need to pay more taxes.
@Mister006 That’s a fair point.
Big businesses need to ramp up their IT and invest seriously in cyber security. That’s basic.
Big businesses are the worst parasites
So, if your house gets robbed, do you think you need to pay the police a fee to recover your property?
@Mister006 Problem is Jamie Dimon, Larry Sumner, Joe Manchin and their ilk don’t get this!
The DOJ did something quickly and effectively? Haven’t seen that from them in the previous four years…
IS TRUMP WATCHING? BET HE IS FURIOUS
Trump was in cahoots with America’s attackers
@charles bombaugh he probably give the information to hack them he sold us out to Russia big time, that fat trash need to pay .
it’s was Putin that OK the transfer on money just in time for the meeting with Biden.
Yeah because it totally happened. Why do you trust anything they say? They’ve been proven to be liars.
Bill Barr ” this is not a problem, there is no crime here.”
Dark Side: ” Bill Barr was worth bit coin we paid him. Who says you can’t buy piece of mind?”
Besides, they cannot prosecute an active cyber criminal gang while they have all of Bill barrs passwords.
TRUMPY the Nazi got his cut too.
QUID PRO JOE IS OWNED BY CHINA!!!
Luckily Barr is not, still, running the DOJ; he would have been on the receiving end of the paid ransom, and then, covered it up.