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Colonial Pipeline lied about the amount of money they gave the hackers...
Posted on 5/18/21 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 5/18/21 at 12:27 pm
They initially said they didn't give them anything, then admitted that they actually gave the hackers $5 million to end the cyber attack on their systems. Turns out that, too, was a lie. Colonial Pipeline reportedly paid the hackers upwards of $90 million.
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This post was edited on 5/18/21 at 12:28 pm
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Posted on 5/18/21 at 12:31 pm to RollTide1987
That’s a lot of Bitcoin for the CIA to have.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 12:31 pm to RollTide1987
CIA making bank.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 12:40 pm to RollTide1987
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paid the hackers upwards of $90 million.
It would have been better to invest in a competent IT department. Not having backup files is almost criminal.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 12:42 pm to RollTide1987
check was made out to the DNC, thats who the hackers were, or i should say CIA was directed by them to shut it down
by any means necessary is not a slogan to them but its part of their religion
by any means necessary is not a slogan to them but its part of their religion
This post was edited on 5/18/21 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 5/18/21 at 12:43 pm to RollTide1987
How do you think this expense shows up on their annual report?
Posted on 5/18/21 at 1:01 pm to RollTide1987
Sounds like it's just their Nomination system. It also looks like it's network segmentation that bit them. That is self inflicted.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 1:06 pm to PorkSammich
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That’s a lot of Bitcoin for the CIA to have.
Come on man.
You know they ain't keeping it.
They needed the money so that they could fund the next "boogie-man" that hates us so that they can strip us of more liberties and start another endless war.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 1:07 pm to RollTide1987
I read this report not as colonial paying 90 mil in ransom, instead a foreign actor paying someone to hack. Maybe I am wrong.
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Reading more, it seems like the 90 million might have been total payments to the wallet over the course of their operations, meaning, all the ransoms paid by all the victims they have had. I wrote about this last week, no longer is traditional approach of maintaining good backups to restore from and telling the hackers to eff off always a possible approach, a lot of times they are not just ransoming your data from being destroyed, but they are also ransoming it from being released which can have far greater impacts. Think of the impact to intel agencies, health record companies, financial institutions, they have a ton to lose if their data goes public.
Edit:
Reading more, it seems like the 90 million might have been total payments to the wallet over the course of their operations, meaning, all the ransoms paid by all the victims they have had. I wrote about this last week, no longer is traditional approach of maintaining good backups to restore from and telling the hackers to eff off always a possible approach, a lot of times they are not just ransoming your data from being destroyed, but they are also ransoming it from being released which can have far greater impacts. Think of the impact to intel agencies, health record companies, financial institutions, they have a ton to lose if their data goes public.
This post was edited on 5/18/21 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 5/18/21 at 1:09 pm to RollTide1987
Joe Biden standing strong to help American energy producers and transporters 
Posted on 5/18/21 at 1:16 pm to Jobu93
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How do you think this expense shows up on their annual report?
thas what im thinkin..
Posted on 5/18/21 at 1:20 pm to RollTide1987
Not exactly.
LINK
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Elliptic said DarkSide and its affiliates bagged at least $90 million in bitcoin ransom payments over the past nine months from 47 victims.
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Posted on 5/18/21 at 1:24 pm to RollTide1987
I thought $5M was incredibly low of Colonial to have to pay to get back in operation. No clue what their daily revenue is but I'm sure it's closer to the $90M number rather than the $5M number.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 1:43 pm to RollTide1987
It was $5 million. Try reading.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 1:49 pm to RollTide1987
I find that hard to believe and unlikely...your link is pretty weak.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 2:31 pm to cwill
Would have been worth it to pay 90 million to the Russian mafia to kill the hackers.
Sent a message of don’t mess with us.
Sent a message of don’t mess with us.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 3:06 pm to RollTide1987
Ha, not surprised
Posted on 5/18/21 at 3:07 pm to RollTide1987
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Colonial Pipeline reportedly paid the hackers upwards of $90 million.
Holy shite
Posted on 5/18/21 at 3:20 pm to RollTide1987
What if
Because there was NO hackers.
Colonial profited off of the higher prices, the deep state got another crisis.
What are the odds that we the people will bail them out for the ransom?
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they didn't give them anything
Because there was NO hackers.
Colonial profited off of the higher prices, the deep state got another crisis.
What are the odds that we the people will bail them out for the ransom?
Posted on 5/18/21 at 3:22 pm to LSUbest
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What are the odds that we the people will bail them out for the ransom?
Yep, in gas prices.
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