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Bruce Kleinman
@brucedkleinman
entrepreneur & author, technologist & economist, consulting detective
Jun 7, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Earlier this afternoon, the DoJ announced they had seized the bitcoin (specifically, the private key) from the #ColonialPipeline ransomware attack. How might that have happened? Here is a working hypothesis. [1]
@ahcastor @BennettTomlin @KimZetter The attackers were operating a bitcoin full node and using the default attached wallet. Their full node was running on a hosted server in Northern California per “Warrant to Seize Property Subject to Forfeiture”. [2]