Federal Reserve Hacked

[ABCbits]

Well it seems that they weren't making empty threats this time.

https://cybernews.com/news/lockbit-ransomware-us-federal-reserve-published/

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And now i have question who would bother review all 33TB of data? They don't even bother mention which data would take interest of media news and general public.

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33TB is a lot of data, so it makes me wonder how anybody is supposed to fit the whole dump on their drives given that most people are not in possession of a network-attached-storage (NAS) where you can just keep adding 4TB disks until you got enough to store everything.

Maybe they'll just dink it to Internet Archive if they haven't already.

Technology called RAID exist, so people could just buy multiple smaller disk.

[Faisal2202]

It's 28 June now, and hackers are supposed to leak data till 25 June which they obviously did not leak don't know why. But the Tor site they talking about is now not opening anymore. I don't get one thing, they hacked the site after 10 June right? And authorities announced that they have their hands on 7k keys to decrypt data before 10 June (According to news, as it was published on 6 June). So why these hackers did not come up with some different types of keys Aren't they aware that authorities have 7k keys?

Or they just wanted to test if they really had the keys or bluffing so test the claims, they hacked or faked the hack so they would see if the keys were real. But if its the case, they can easily see the keys at the site, as authorities have provided the keys on a site published in an article (Here).

Another confusion is if the lockbit has the data encrypted which means they can copy it as well. Right, so even if the victims got the keys to decrypt them why did they not release it.

[electronicash]

they release one that is from Evolve Bancorp Inc. but nothing substantial that will create an uproar. i doubt they will do it and it looks like the ransomware didn't work. behind the news though we are not aware of what is going on.

but there are lots of things that you can mix to this kind of news. its not like there is bigger things they could hide than printing lots of bank notes. FED wouldn't care they are the law. they probably even the ones asking ransom from the banks.

[Stompix]

33TB is a lot of data, so it makes me wonder how anybody is supposed to fit the whole dump on their drives

Well, since there was no hack and there I no data...then no problem downloading it, right? 

It's 28 June now, and hackers are supposed to leak data till 25 June which they obviously did not leak don't know why. But the Tor site they talking about is now not opening anymore. I don't get one thing, they hacked the site after 10 June right? And authorities announced that they have their hands on 7k keys to decrypt data before 10 June (According to news, as it was published on 6 June). So why these hackers did not come up with some different types of keys Aren't they aware that authorities have 7k keys?

The keys are from the already encrypted data of the previous victims.
That's why Lockbit is fuming right now, the FBI was releasing all those keys so every victim that didn't pay can now decrypt its files.
The timing is pretty telling here!

[Faisal2202]

The keys are from the already encrypted data of the previous victims.
That's why Lockbit is fuming right now, the FBI was releasing all those keys so every victim that didn't pay can now decrypt its files.
The timing is pretty telling here!

Yeah I know the keys are for already encrypted data, I was concerned about their act of going after federal reserves data, while they still know their previous encryption keys have been decrypted. They are not going to use the same encryption keys here as well, so why did the site OP use it as a reference and publish an article, in which they said, authorities already have the keys while they had old keys?

As I said before never heard about this group before, but they have made 90+ million dollars till now that's a good amount of money considering the time they have been in the market. I read some other articles about this group, authorities are after them from a long time, they even have the photos released of the owner of the site or program.

[yhiaali3]

LOL, the first time I read the title I laughed. I don’t know why. I think there are also many people like me who are happy about what happened to the US Federal Reserve Bank. The US government has fans all over the world!!!

I also wonder where they went with this very large amount of data, 33 terabytes of data. How long did it take them to download it from the Internet without anyone noticing, and also where did they go with it?

I think they will get a very big deal. In return, regardless of the ransom or the money, the US Federal Reserve Bank and the US government have suffered a huge moral blow and failure as far as the people are concerned.

[KingsDen]

I do doubt it as well, I do not believe it, but lets assume for a moment that it is true, even in that case they have nothing to worry about because they will catch the hackers one way or another. You could hide in china or russia, and you would still be caught and nothing will save you. So these hackers messed with the wrong powerful group, and I think even if they do get paid eventually, they will realize that the money is not spendable at all.

When such a thing happens to the authority people don't believe easily, but we tend to forget that the authority is an entity made up of individuals. But we should also remember that for an entity to go after a body like FBI, they are prepared and they somewhat know the strength of FBI. According to the report, it says that FBI has been taking their website down, which means they have been tuzzling with FB

This is going to be a great story to follow to see how it unfolds, but I will probably forget about it by tomorrow, too many things happens in the world every day.

Some major parts of the story would be hidden from you. If for the sake of FBI you won't get the news but for the purported hackers trying to show up the new got to you.