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Some context conveniently left out of here, the Reddit post, and the Twitter cross-post:

Scattered Spider has been involved in hacks resulting in more than $100m (£75m) in ransom payments, according to the DoJ.
The charges come after two young men pleaded guilty to offences connected to the £39m 2024 Transport for London cyber-attack, which the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) believed was conducted by the group.
Investigators from the NCA said they believed the 2024 "network intrusion" - in which around 10 million people's data was stolen - was carried out by Scattered Spider.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy0we4yw1lo

Your "conveniently" makes it look like it was conditionally collected; it is easy to cherry-pick stories to retroactively justify tyranny.

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