DoJ, FBI recover $500,000 in ransomware payments to Maui gang
Federal law enforcement officials this week said they seized about $500,000 that healthcare facilities in the United States paid to the Maui ransomware group.
The Department of Justice and FBI recovered the money and seized the Bitcoin used to launder it following an investigation after one of the victims, a medical center in Kansas that paid a ransom after being attacked in May 2021, contacted authorities. It also led to the seizure of $120,000 paid in Bitcoin earlier this year by another healthcare facility in Colorado.
In the case involving the Kansas healthcare facility, the hospital paid the $100,000 ransom but also contacted the FBI, which traced the payment through the blockchain and identified accounts used by money launderers in China who were working with the North Korean-backed ransomware group. "What flowed from that virtuous decision [by the Kansas hospital] was: the recovery of their ransom payment; the recovery of ransoms paid by previously unknown victims; the identification of a previously unidentified ransomware strain; all from an investigation that allowed the FBI and its partners to release a cybersecurity advisory to empower network defenders everywhere," she said.was first detected in May 2021.
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