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The U.S. Federal Reserve may have been the victim of a hacking scheme, endangering some 33 terabytes (each terabyte being 1,000 gigabytes) of Americans sensitive financial information, United Press International reported Monday. LockBit, the cybergang that claimed the attack, issued a Tuesday deadline for the Fed to cough up a ransom for the stolen data. With both sides largely silent, it was unknown exactly what banking information the group had or if the hack was even real. Cyberattack tracker HackManac posted a screenshot of LockBits Sunday dark net announcement about the alleged Fed b