The FBI was able to seize control of DarkSide's proceeds by gaining access to a central account holding about 63.7 bitcoins, worth around $2.3 million, Deputy Director Paul Abbate said. A court document said that the seizure took place in Northern California, putting it within reach of U.S. law, and that the FBI was able to access the "private key," or password, for one of the gang's bitcoin wallets. It was unclear how the key was compromised.
Elvis Chan, an assistant special agent in charge at the FBI's San Francisco office, said in a news call Monday that the funds were specifically seized from hacker subcontractors who had used the DarkSide ransomware to hack Colonial.
He declined to give specifics of how the FBI was able to gain access to the wallet, but he said it did not rely on waiting for criminals to use U.S. cryptocurrency services.
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06-12-2021, 03:30 AM #1
This guy can take all your bitcoin, its over!
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06-12-2021, 03:33 AM #2
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06-12-2021, 03:35 AM #3
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06-12-2021, 03:37 AM #4
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06-12-2021, 03:38 AM #5
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06-12-2021, 03:39 AM #6
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06-12-2021, 04:07 AM #7
The private key wasn't compromised and anyone that believes this chit knows nothing about crypto. The funds were on a cex and they got a warrant to access the wallet there. If you have crypto on a cex, you don't have private keys and you don't technically own it. It's very clear how the key was compromised. They didn't crack a private wallet and they don't have the ability to do it either.
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06-12-2021, 04:09 AM #8
Incorrect, even court documents say that the FBI has the private key to the wallet. The funds were not on a CEX, he even mentions that below.
"He declined to give specifics of how the FBI was able to gain access to the wallet, but he said it did not rely on waiting for criminals to use U.S. cryptocurrency services."
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06-12-2021, 04:15 AM #9
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06-12-2021, 04:29 AM #10
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06-12-2021, 04:33 AM #11
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06-12-2021, 04:52 AM #12
This. Buttcoiners want to cling to the deflection of it being gross negligence on the part of the hacker by trying to offramp the funds on a rented server (CEX), but that isn't stated anywhere, and anyone smart enough to pull off an operation like that isn't going to leave a blatant breadcrumb trail like that in the first place.
Although that would explain how they got the private key, it doesn't necessarily out rule other probability that they used quantum computing to compromise the sha-256 encryption to access the wallet.
Basically pro-crypto vs anti-crypto reaching based on lack of transparency, but the second is more likely from an objective standpoint considered google has legit QC tech now
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06-12-2021, 04:55 AM #13
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06-12-2021, 05:02 AM #14
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06-12-2021, 06:21 AM #15
You can't get the private key to a wallet unless the person is dumb enough to give it to you, it's on a cex and they give it to you, or you're the one that owns it already. The fact that these criminal masterminds asked for BTC instead of XMR already shows they are ridiculously incompetent or this was all a ruse. If the court documents specifically say the funds weren't on a cex, then I'll have to start leaning towards either pure stupidity or pure conspiracy. Considering they point to a US location, which makes no sense for a personal wallet, I'm going to go with this was all a bunch of bullchit from the start and they were able to neg crypto as part of the plan.
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06-12-2021, 06:34 AM #16
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06-12-2021, 06:36 AM #17
If our government has quantum computing capable of breaking strong crypto like SHA-256, that's the kind of technology which wins the wars of the future.
It's sitting in the basement of the NSA or some other intelligence agency we've never heard of, and they're not risking compromising it to get back a couple million in bitcoin.
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06-12-2021, 06:52 AM #18
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06-12-2021, 07:48 AM #20
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06-12-2021, 07:54 AM #21
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06-12-2021, 07:57 AM #22
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06-12-2021, 08:01 AM #23
Its a non story. They didn't break bitcoin, to do they they would have to break SHA256 which is used worldwide extensively. If that is broken, that would be the biggest story in computing and nothing that used that algorithm (which its everywhere) would be secure until fixes were pushed out.
They intercepted the password being shared over a compromised communucation, or did the metaphorical hit him with a hammer until he tells you the password.
And before some CT chimes in and says "NSA could have a backdoor..." they wouldn't use it on something like this if they had it.
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06-12-2021, 08:22 AM #24
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06-12-2021, 09:32 AM #26
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06-12-2021, 09:40 AM #27
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06-12-2021, 03:33 PM #28
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