The US Department of Justice announced the liquidation of a network of hackers from Hive, which is responsible for extorting hundreds of millions of dollars from people around the world. Since July 2021, 1.5 thousand people became victims of groups. During this time, hackers from the Hive group received $ 100 million. The victims included hospitals, schools and financial companies. For example, one medical organization was forced to switch to analog methods of providing services so as not to stop taking new patients.
Last night, the Ministry of Justice eliminated the international group of Hacker extortionist, responsible for extorting and attempts to extort hundreds of millions of dollars from victims in the USA and around the world, “said USPRCHORA GARILAN, his words are given on the website of the Ministry of Justice.
The US Department of Justice said that at the end of July 2021, the FBI employees managed to get 300 ditching keys, entering the chain of a hacker group. After that, the FBI handed these keys to the victims of the hackers, which allowed them to avoid paying 130 million dollars as a ransom.
In January of this year, the FBI officers, together with the German police and the National Department for Combating crimes in the field of high technologies of the Netherlands, took control of the Hive group servers.