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correspondent alex marquardt is following the story. alex, a big blow to the hackers potentially. how did the justice department get the money back? >> essentially what happened, wolf, is when the colonial pipeline was attacked, they quickly alerted the fbi but they also paid the attackers $4.4 million in bitcoin. that allowed the investigates to start tracking the money. that's what the department of justice did. they followed the money. they followed that bitcoin into a cryptocurrency wallet. they were able to recover bitcoin that's more than half of the ransom that was paid. this really highlights the tactic that the administration wants to use to go after these ransomware networks to disrupt them, because it is the money that really incentivizes these attackers to continue carrying out these attacks. this is a rare occurrence and this is a big win for the department of justice's new