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How Did FBI Recover Colonial Pipeline’s DarkSide Bitcoins?

This Data Breach alert was published at 11.06.2021 18.42 on Data Breach Today.

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Cryptocurrency has a reputation for being tough to trace – no wonder anonymity-craving criminals favor using it. In reality, cryptocurrencies don’t make users anonymous. But just how did the FBI recover most of the bitcoins paid by Colonial Pipeline to the DarkSide ransomware operation?

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