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and took nearly all the money back out, says the deputy attorney general lisa monaco. today we turned the tables on darkside. reporter: colonial paid 4.4 million to a bitcoin account in northern california, which a judge ordered seized according to the u.s. attorney in san francisco. the extortionists will never see this money. reporter: justice department officials say it s a potent way to take the profit out of ransomware. quite a story. to go with it, in new york city, the fbi and nypd are investigating a cyberattack that hit the city s law department. on sunday, officials disabled the computer network of the government s roughly 1,000 lawyers after discovering the attack. as of right now, mayor bill de blasio says there s no ransom demand and doesn t appear any information has been compromised but cautions the details are still emerging. the new york times the motive and identity of who is behind the attack sun clear. however, the type of ransomware used is commonly dep