How New Team of Feds Hacked the Hackers and Got Colonial Pipeline's Ransom Back

Enabled by a critical error, from the article:

"...the attackers made an unusual error in this case by failing to keep money moving. The $2.3 million that ultimately was recovered was still sitting in the same Bitcoin account it had been delivered to."

If that's the kind of negligence that enabled this recovery, I wouldn't put much stock in similar recoveries becoming commonplace.

This is complete nonsense.

The author of this article just made things up.

Here is the affidavit from the FBI Agent doing the investigation.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.37...

He describes tracing the movement of the coins to many different addresses.

They did not stay in the same account.

I just learned Colonial shut down the pipeline because of the hack to their billing system. Not the pipeline.