| | | there is as yet no claim that the pipeline hack was done by state- or state-sponsored actors
I wonder how and which crypto(s) were used in paying the 5M, and
why (ONLY) 5M?
why not an on-going stream of safe-passage royalty?
the coins, if they were BTC, can be tracked even if owner of wallets not exactly known
spending the coins not precisely easy, especial as TSLA stop accepting BTCs
I suppose the hackers can organise an ETF
another imponderable until expressed in action, how many other pipelines to hack, and why such only happens in America ?
Team China, during the powwow in Alaska, complimented Team America on its mastery of hacking wizardry, and Team America did not deny the compliment.
As I noted, if there is no action to get at the perps, would likely mean the hack was an inside / false-flag black ops benefiting whomever received the cryptos - easy enough for literally anyone to set up whatever necessary supposedly somewhere in Eastern Europe - the entire episode makes it impossible for any nation state charged to prove it is not involved. Very convenient. 5M? Too low a number for a seriously damaging effort. The story does not hang together and does not pass the laugh test.
Time shall tell.
If an actual hack by bad actors, they would be found out and hunted down.
If a false flag, then no more followup news re hunt for perps as no one would bother hunting for folks not in existence.
Same reasoning applies to those rice-grain sized chips denied by Apple, Ingram Micro, and Amazon, but claimed, not once but twice within several years span, by Bloomberg. |
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