[eric strt6]

Servers Of Colonial Pipeline Hacker Darkside Forced Down: Security Firm

Servers for Darkside were taken down by unknown actors Friday, a week after the cyber extortionist forced the shutdown of a large US oil pipeline in a ransomware scam, a US cyber security firm said.

www.barrons.com

 

[rideit]

I would imagine that they well expected this response...

 

[Jm_]

Yeah, they made off with 5 million in bitcoin or something, right?

 

[eric strt6]

Yeah, they made off with 5 million in bitcoin or something, right?

From the pipeline company yep. And the group that hacked the hackers stole the entire amount of Bitcoin they had acquired though their world wide ransomware exploits. Gotta love it.

 

[rideit]

Hunh, I didn’t get that from skimming the article. I’ll have to read it again.

 

[kidwoo]

I really wish 'news' outlets would stop stating that the hackers took the pipeline off line.

The company took it off line because they couldn't charge people.