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The breach was the latest in a string of attacks targeting businesses critical to American infrastructure.

Pipeline Investigation Upends Idea That Bitcoin Is Untraceable The F.B.I.’s recovery of Bitcoins paid in the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack showed cryptocurrencies are not as hard to track as it might seem. Gas lines at Costco in Greensboro, N.C., last month during the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline from a ransomware attack.Credit...Woody Marshall/News & Record, via Associated Press June 9, 2021, 3:54 p.m. ET When Bitcoin burst onto the scene in 2009, fans heralded the cryptocurrency as a secure, decentralized and anonymous way to conduct transactions outside the traditional financi...

F.B.I. Director Compares Danger of Ransomware to 9/11 Terror Threat The Biden administration is taking steps to counter the growing threat of cyberattacks on U.S. businesses, and encouraging companies to do more to protect themselves. Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, said that Russia was harboring some of the most dangerous ransomware groups.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times June 4, 2021Updated 8:39 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is sounding increasingly urgent alarms about high-profile ransomware attacks that have caused widespread gas shortages, shut ...

Are We Waiting for Everyone to Get Hacked? It’s been almost a decade since Leon Panetta, then the secretary of defense, warned of an impending “Cyber Pearl Harbor.” He didn’t want to be right. Credit...Cayce Clifford for The New York Times June 5, 2021Updated 5:56 a.m. ET MONTEREY, Calif. — Leon Panetta is one of the few American government officials who can look around at the nation’s rolling cyberdisasters and justifiably say, “I told you so.” The former secretary of defense was among the first senior leaders to warn us, in the most sober of terms, that this would happen in ...

Readers discuss a tennis player's decision not to play, rather than confront the media. Also: Israel and Gaza; driverless cars; ransomware attacks; India's Covid mistake; police reform.