The US Department of Justice announced Monday that it recovered much of the ransomware payment that Colonial Pipeline paid to free itself from the attack that derailed the oil and gas supplier’s operations for several days last month. The seizure of 63.7 of the initial 75 paid bitcoins represented the first success of the Justice Department’s Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force, a team formalized just months ago, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal.

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