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FBI dismantles ransomware gang Hive's website. $130 million in ransom payments averted.

Jan 26, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

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  • Politician Portrayal

    6% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : FBI Director Christopher Wray characterized law enforcement's action against Hive as unprecedented in scope and in its result: He said agents were able to secretly infiltrate the Hive networks for seven months where they identified the group's targets and provided decryption keys to 1,300 victims, averting $130 million in ransom payments.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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