Sketchy doesn’t begin to describe this DOJ narrative.
According to their press release the DOJ seized 63.7 Bitcoin (digital currency) through accessing a server in North Carolina used to enter the Bitcoin wallet password of the original hackers. However, the DOJ still claims the “hackers” were sophisticated Russian operatives. Meaning the “Russian Hackers” were so sophisticated they could hack a major gas pipeline, but not sophisticated enough to protect their wallet and hosted it online on a US based server?
DOJ […] approximately 63.7 bitcoins, representing the proceeds of the victim’s ransom payment, had been transferred to a specific address, for which the FBI has the “private key,” or the rough equivalent of a password needed to access assets accessible from the specific Bitcoin address. (read more)
Doesn’t this seem like either the private key wasn’t private, or the FBI was the original hacker of the pipeline?
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced that it has seized 63.7 bitcoins currently valued at approximately $2.3 million. These funds allegedly represent the proceeds of a May 8, ransom payment to individuals in a group known as DarkSide, which had targeted Colonial Pipeline, resulting in critical infrastructure being taken out of operation. The seizure warrant was authorized earlier today by the Honorable Laurel Beeler, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California.
“Following the money remains one of the most basic, yet powerful tools we have,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco for the U.S. Department of Justice. “Ransom payments are the fuel that propels the digital extortion engine, and today’s announcement demonstrates that the United States will use all available tools to make these attacks more costly and less profitable for criminal enterprises. We will continue to target the entire ransomware ecosystem to disrupt and deter these attacks. Today’s announcements also demonstrate the value of early notification to law enforcement; we thank Colonial Pipeline for quickly notifying the FBI when they learned that they were targeted by DarkSide.”
“There is no place beyond the reach of the FBI to conceal illicit funds that will prevent us from imposing risk and consequences upon malicious cyber actors,” said FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate. “We will continue to use all of our available resources and leverage our domestic and international partnerships to disrupt ransomware attacks and protect our private sector partners and the American public.” (full press release)
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“Doesn’t this seem like either the private key wasn’t private, or the FBI was the original hacker of the pipeline?”
Exactly!
I’ll just leave this here.
https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4731
It’s anyone’s guess what the globalists have planned next, but this pipeline hacking sure has brought out many plausible guesses about what is to come.
Thanks for the insightful link, I’ll try to pass it along. More people need to know how brazen our government has become.
Another explanation could be that the FBI is simply lying about where they got the Bitcoin. How do we know that it has any connection to the pipeline hack? Has there been independent blockchain analysis to determine that these are the same coins?
They have exactly zero credibility. Makes no difference what they say, everything is suspect.
A reasonable person has to assume that every word out of their mouths , including and and the is a lie.
What a crock!
Oh sure- they can recover crypto cash but cant find HRC’s emails,Hunters laptop,Wiener’s laptop,Swallowells trysts,Whos behind stealing the election,Whos funding Antifa and BLM….well you get the idea. We’re supposed to trust these assholes?
At this point, I am not sure they care whether we trust them or not.
More and more this looks like the hill they want to die on.
OK.
They have control, our trust isn’t needed.
No one is saying that we should trust these douchebags. The point of the article is that they find what they want to find. Either that or they are full of shit and they never found a key.
you don’t fin a Bitcoin private key. You either steal it or confiscate it by force. They know a member in DarkSide group or are part of it.
Lisa Monaco is pure Swamp Mueller’s former chief of staff, Homeland Security under Obama, higher level operative, so none of this should be believed absent independent verification.
Hacks are preliminary actions test runs if you will to sow chaos by DS as the AZ audit winds up, other audits moving forward and they need to bring out the big guns. They will never go quietly. Think a bit of strategic hoarding is a good idea at this point as certain timelines are converging in the not too distant future. Hot summer ahead.
I’ve been wondering if the sudden appearance of so-called hackers is a money laundering scheme by our very own bureaucracy .
Nothing is off the table. Everything now is suspect.
Should have demanded a pallet of cash like the Iranians.
What’s even more sketchy is that the Digital Task FOrce was assembled on April 21,2021 and one of it’s members is John Carlin !!!
Looking at the photo it’s nice to know that Lurch can find a job after being typecast on the Adams Family. Would be nice if it was honest work though.
my understanding is that the hackers communicated to colonial through a custom app (apparently the FBI, or contractor, created it)…this was presumably the “secure” comms by which the FBI was able to track how the funds were transferred, and presumably how the FBI was able to do “other things”
such as
a. hack into the hackers network and exfil the private key used to secure the wallet.
b. then somehow actually use that private key and do the transfer from the secure wallet.
and this, but NOT identifying the hackers up, server, location, and profile?
yeah, none of the dots line up.
further more, why would the FBI leak to the media they used a smurfed custom app to nail the criminals?
that’s stupid…now all ransomware hackers will simply refuse to use ANY app they did not create themselves or have total control.!!!
so much for opsec.
lastly, the pipeline itself, movement of oil, was never on peril. this was known early on. why shutdown operations that was never connected to the compromised system. . my understanding is the compromise was a non oil production system…. almost every single critical asset and infrastructure was identified years ago and mitigation was applied to completely separate public facing and intranet systems for production type networks. in fact, two short days after the system was shut down,by the company ‘out of abundance of caution”, it was green lit and back into operation…
so the “crisis” overall was very overblown…and the gas shortages look alot to.me that someone was looking to create massive wealth through a short play on the company and oil.futures.
2.3 million on ransomware is peanuts.
they probably spent that much on cyber security consulting fees, and attorneys.
nothing sounds right about this event
A very large American insurance firm was recently hacked and the ransom was 40 million which they paid, so yeah, peanuts.
Anything that is digital is not secure period stop.
That whole sales pitch of bitcoin banaza is full BS. Ole school hard cash or barter me you and the gatepost transactions is the only real untraceable transaction. Just like the darkweb stuff yes to untrained regulars me you its anonymous but to gov with teams or even a determined small group with expertise that can track monitor it is nothing of the sort.
Total B S. Given the DOJ players in this farce, there will never be any prosecutions. How could there be any criminal charges? They’d be charging themselves.
Who believes that we have a government? A nation?
The Colonial Pipeline Hack, The ‘Russians’, & The FBI’s Ransom-Grab – What Really Happened?
8 Jun 2021
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/colonial-pipeline-hack-russians-fbis-ransom-grab-what-really-happened
So the “Russian hackers” brought down the largest pipeline on the east coast… but couldn’t spend 50 bucks on a clean hardware wallet to secure their bitcoin?
Makes sense to me!
I don’t believe they recovered anything, why should we believe anything the democrat parties dept of jackasses has to say? How do we know they weren’t in on it from the start? This admin has suffered intrusions on two major businesses that this same admin has said have to go. Blaming it on the Russians to me is admitting the Democrat parties kgb, the cia, did it.
Lol it’s quite possible they didn’t the funds are on a wallet that hasn’t been spent.
What a cast of characters! Looks like a casting call for the Addams Family Reunion! This is your DOJ people.
pop quiz for the day:
what is the market maker for bitcoin.?
specifically WHO sets the price?
let the question sink in
The price is set by market demand. Different exchanges may quote slightly different prices at the same time but they’re typically very close together. Same for other crypto currencies. But the issue going forward is that the price is now being manipulated by the likes of Elon Musk and other institutions.
The recent crash in the crypto market was a textbook example of a Wyckoff distribution implemented by the institutions to scare out retail investors and lower the price of BTC, because we can’t have the middle and lower class profiting off crypto, can we. This had a ripple effect across most every other digital currency.
I did have some money put into crypto, just enough that I was ok with losing, but after all this BS, seeing the damage Musk can do with one tweet has really turned me off. I’m holding what I have but I’m not gonna buy anymore.
I know crypto gets a lot of hate here, but I still like it and had really high hopes for it. Oh well, just another thing I was wrong about I suppose. Better just keep putting money in savings and 401k and lose it all when the stock market crashes. Don’t think I’ll ever climb out of this hole.
“the FBI was the original hacker of the pipeline” Makes Perfect Sense to me!
Here they say the FBI went thru Coinbase for the key and that Coinbase was the wallet- Coinbase denies.
It’s all lies every day. You either live in LaLa Land or you open your eyes and engage your brain to the con job we are living through.
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/21/06/21466707/u-s-officials-trace-and-recover-2-3-million-in-bitcoin-from-colonial-pipeline-ransom