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>The company paid the hefty ransom in untraceable cryptocurrency within hours after the attack in Monero? Wonder how they converted USD.
by purple_ferret 5y ago
>The company paid the hefty ransom in untraceable cryptocurrency within hours after the attack
in Monero? Wonder how they converted USD.
- TacticalCoder 5y agoI'm wondering too. Now in TFA I read: "The company paid the hefty ransom in difficult-to-trace cryptocurrency within hours after the attack..." I don't know why you got "untraceable" and I get "difficult to trace" when reading the article. Bitcoin ain't exactly difficult to trace. I wonder if Colonial took the "discount" of 30% and paid in Monero or if they paid in Bitcoin. Oh well it looks at least one company is going to give a bit more sh-t about its IT security ; ) And another thing: often these news are followed, a few weeks/months later by "How the hackers who got a $5m ransom from Colonial got caught". Waiting for that one...