The FBI managed to retrieve most of the $4.4 million cryptocurrency ransom payment in Colonial Pipeline hack.
Can they also confiscate YOUR crypto funds if they wanted to??
The reason these rumors are spreading is because the FBI was able to identify the encrypted key in which the hackers demanded money. First of all you need to understand is that they are investigating these hackers for the past one year and following their pattern on how they are moving the coins and i am sure the hackers were using any exchange address initially and the FBI might have got access through that way.
Every 'terrorist' group we know about on earth, had FBI moles, informants on the inside, usually instigating the operation, and they wait for a low-news day to release the 'grab'; They operate very slow, build cases for years; Grab the money before they even announce the bust.
Even the online-drug-guy was busted because he was befriended by an FBI agent that got his email (gmail led to real-id), these 'hacker groups' are even worse as they usually all hang out in the same forums, or chat groups, or usenets, or even darkwebs;
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This OP is bullshit, because essentially unless your in criminal behavior, its not likely the FBI will target U, however the way exchanges work, they can 'taint' your coin on suspicion based on the fact that your coin might have been mixed at sometime in the past, sort of like cocaine on currency, or being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Once the exchanges locks your btc by association, your screwed, time to hire an expensive lawyer, and watch real money evaporate.
BTC IMHO hacking means to crack the private-key, and/or randomly exploit the hash160 public address to obtain the private-key, then sweep the funds, that kind of hacking takes place all over the world since the birth of bitcoin. Then there is scams, where people have trojan horse websites that say "Give me your priv-key, and I'll return 2x", and tons of morons fall for that, its not hacking its scamming.
