{"id":138034,"date":"2021-11-05T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T07:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=138034"},"modified":"2021-11-05T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T07:53:38","slug":"us-offers-10-million-for-data-on-hacker-group-darkside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/us-offers-10-million-for-data-on-hacker-group-darkside\/","title":{"rendered":"US offers $10 million for data on hacker group DarkSide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reward-offers-for-information-to-bring-darkside-ransomware-variant-co-conspirators-to-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promised a<\/a>\u00a0reward of up to $ 10 million for information that will help identify and identify the main members of the DarkSide hacker group.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US State Department is announcing a reward of up to $ 10 million for information that allows to locate any person or persons holding a key position in the transnational organized crime group DarkSide, the State Department said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, the department also promised to pay an additional $ 5 million for data that will contribute to the detention or indictment of persons who participated or attempted to participate in the May cyberattack of the DarkSide group.<\/p>\n<p>This spring, the American company Colonial Pipeline, which operates the fuel pipeline, suffered at the hands of hackers.\u00a0The attackers demanded a ransom for decrypting the data that blocked the business.\u00a0The attack caused problems with the delivery of oil to the east coast of the United States, which led to a shortage of gasoline at gas stations in many parts of the country.\u00a0The fuel crisis lasted more than a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has\u00a0promised a\u00a0reward of up to $ 10 million for information that will help identify and identify the main members of the DarkSide hacker group. The US State Department is announcing a reward of up to $ 10 million for information that allows to locate any person or persons holding a key [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/us-offers-10-million-for-data-on-hacker-group-darkside\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":138035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-138034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}