REVEALED: $90 MILLION was paid in Bitcoin ransoms after 99 firms including Guess and Toshiba were targeted by DarkSide hackers who closed the Colonial Pipeline
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said DarkSide's Bitcoin wallet received $90 million from 47 Bitcoin payments in the last nine months
Around half of all victims paid the hackers ransom money with t
he average payment being $1.9 million
Of the more than $90 million identified, $15.5 million went to DarkSide’s developer and the remaining $74.7 million went to its affiliates, Elliptic said
Dark web intelligence firm DarkTracer found companies including fashion brand Guess, car giant Toshiba France and ferry company Condor Ferries were victims