Federal Fud. Did the FBI HACK a bitcoin wallet tied to the Pipeline cyberattack? Conspiracy

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U.S. federal authorities are fairly tight-lipped on the method of recovering some $2.3 million in bitcoin paid to cyber-hackers of Colonial Pipeline Cos., last month. It is a rare, but not unprecedented, win for agents who are part of a newly formed Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force.

But the big question for crypto market participants may be how the government tactically tracked down the bitcoin. Was this a government conspiracy?
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