U.S. Retrieves Most Of Ransom Paid To Colonial Pipeline Hackers

Government officials announced Monday that they have acquired most of the ransom payment given to hackers after the recent shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline caused massive fuel shortages across the country. 

The task to retrieve the cryptocurrency from the Eastern European hacker group, DarkSide, is the first one carried out by a specialized ransomware task force formed by the Biden administration Justice Department, per The Associated Press.