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DEVELOPING: Cyber Group Claims it Hacked the Federal Reserve… But Cybersecurity Experts Express Doubts About Claims
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | 6/24/2024 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 06/24/2024 11:54:44 AM PDT by bitt

‘Russian’ cyber group dubbed LockBit claims it hacked the Federal Reserve and exfiltrated 33 terabytes of sensitive banking data.

LockBit boasted about the breach on the dark web this week.

“33 terabytes of juicy banking information containing Americans’ banking secrets,” LockBit wrote. “You better hire another negotiator within 48 hours, and fire this clinical idiot who values Americans’ bank secrecy at $50,000.”

#CyberAttack

#USA: US Federal Reserve has been listed as a victim by the LockBit 3.0 ransomware group.

The hackers allegedly exfiltrated 33 TB of banking information.

Ransom deadline: 25th Jun 24.#Ransomware pic.twitter.com/JGC1YG7y4A

— HackManac (@H4ckManac) June 24, 2024

Cybersecurity experts expressed doubts about LockBit’s claims.

“If Lockbit ransomware group actually ransomed the United States Federal Reserve it would be DEFCON 2 and the administrators would need to worry about a drone strike,” the group jokingly wrote. “Unless Lockbit ransomware group ransomed something small in the Federal Reserve, like maybe Lockbit took down their coffee machine and they can’t watch anime or something (we don’t know what the staff at the Federal Reserve actually do).”

Yesterday Lockbit ransomware group claimed to have ransomed the United States Federal Reserve.

1. Doubt

2. If Lockbit ransomware group actually ransomed the United States Federal Reserve it would be DEFCON 2 and the administrators would need to worry about a drone strike pic.twitter.com/CVwj0aHs5h

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) June 24, 2024

No proof so prolly just blowing off steam.

— Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) June 23, 2024

The Daily Dot reported:

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


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KEYWORDS: federalreserve; lockbit

1 posted on 06/24/2024 11:54:44 AM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 06/24/2024 11:54:58 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

If I understand recent news correctly, the US just hit Russian civilians with advanced missiles. Just civilians on a beach. That’s an act of war. I have no doubt that Russia will strike us back. But in some way a little more subtle. Like, maybe, hacking the Federal Reserve.


3 posted on 06/24/2024 12:00:46 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: ClearCase_guy

UKEs using US weapons?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/ukraine-darkness-kiev-fires-atacms-cluster-munitions-crimean/

UKRAINE DARKNESS: Kiev Fires ATACMS With Cluster Munitions at Crimean Beachgoers, as Russia Rips Its Power Infrastructure – Citizens Receiving Just 8 Daily Hours of Energy


4 posted on 06/24/2024 12:03:50 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

As I understand it, the missiles are ours, and we also did the targeting. Maybe the finger that pushed the button wasn’t American, but that means nothing.


5 posted on 06/24/2024 12:08:40 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: ClearCase_guy

In World War II countries created counterfeit currency of their enemies—supposedly the Germans counterfeited and released through the Swiss banking system and a variety of other means 10-20% of the total British currency in circulation.

It had no effect on the war as far as anybody can tell.

Hacking the Fed or US banks is a great way to steal money for the sake of stealing money, however.


6 posted on 06/24/2024 12:09:11 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: bitt

OK, so THEY say they have the data, and the Fed says they don’t. Simple solution! If you have 33TB of data, a few MB of it being released online wouldn’t diminish the value of your holdings, and could prove their claims.

Maybe release every banking record with the name Biden on it.


7 posted on 06/24/2024 12:59:30 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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Dumb...


8 posted on 06/24/2024 12:59:42 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: bitt

“If Lockbit ransomware group actually ransomed the United States Federal Reserve it would be DEFCON 2...”

Yeah, like they’d tell us, or biden!


9 posted on 06/24/2024 1:12:22 PM PDT by null and void (The last war America actually won was WWII, because the CIA wasn't organized until after that war!)
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To: Vendome

“Don’t “


10 posted on 06/24/2024 1:23:28 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: bitt

I hacked the Kremlin over the weekend.

I was just preparing for someone to wake up China to annex Taiwan,

in between WWIII that has been due tomorrow for almost 2 1/2yrs

it’s tough keeping up with CWII preparations on top of the rest.

I have no doubts!


11 posted on 06/24/2024 1:28:07 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: bitt

Do the hackers know that the Fed is $10 Trillion dollars in debt?

There’s no money left- the US government has taken it all.


12 posted on 06/24/2024 1:29:45 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Like the identity thief who ended up with the IRS coming after him for that guy’s IRS debts...


13 posted on 06/24/2024 1:36:27 PM PDT by null and void (The last war America actually won was WWII, because the CIA wasn't organized until after that war!)
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