Companies Have Paid $90 Million Ransoms To DarkSide Hackers Who Shut Down Colonial Pipeline: Report

The hackers who caused the weeklong shutdown of a major U.S. gasoline pipeline have reportedly hit nearly 50 other targets, pulling in more than $90 million in ransoms.

The “DarkSide hackers that closed the Colonial Pipeline have bagged more than $90 million in Bitcoin ransom payments from 47 victims and have infected at least 99 companies in the last year,” the Daily Mail reported. “Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said DarkSide’s Bitcoin wallet received millions of dollars worth of ransom payments in the nine months between October last year and last week when the wallet shut down.”