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After collecting $22 million, AlphV ransomware group stages FBI takedown. Affiliate claims payment came from AlphV victim, and AlphV took the money and ran.
Affiliate claims payment came from AlphV victim, and AlphV took the money and ran.
HOAX — The ransomware group responsible for hamstringing the prescription drug market for two weeks has suddenly gone dark, just days after receiving a $22 million payment and standing accused of scamming an affiliate out of its share of the loot. On Friday, the bitcoin ledger shows, the group received nearly $22 million in cryptocurrency, stoking suspicions the deposit was payment by Change Healthcare in exchange for AlphV decrypting its data and promising to delete it. The NCA denial, as well as evidence the seizure notice was copied from a different site and pasted into the AlphV one, has led multiple researchers to conclude the ransomware group staged the takedown and took the entire $22 million payment for itself.
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