Bitfinex Hacker Transfers 876 Bitcoin ($800,000) Into Diverse Addresses On The Bitcoin Network; Starting Fourth Dimension Deed Since August
The hacker responsible for stealing $70 ane G 1000 worth of bitcoin from Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange, Bitfinex, has started to motion the sick gotten coins to diverse addresses on the Bitcoin network.
Over the past times 2 days, the thief has moved some 876.82 BTC ($806,674.4 at today’s telephone substitution rate) inward a 196 dissimilar transactions, according to transaction data compiled past times blockchain enthusiast, Chris Ellis.
Bitfinex has responded on Twitter past times offering a sizable bounty to anyone amongst information that results inward the recovery of the stolen funds.
Stolen August #Bitcoin are on the move. Please deal us track. We'll offering 5% bounty on every BTC recovered. https://t.co/8n5920UC0A
— Bitfinex.com (@bitfinex) January 27, 2017
The crafty maneuvers of the Bitfinex hacker is too beingness tracked past times blockchain forensics & compliance firms similar Luxembourg-based Scorechain, which too alerted Bitfinex on the drive of the stolen coins.
BREAKING NEWS @bitfinex assailant moved yesterday at to the lowest degree 153 BTC - 137 000$ amongst 38 transactions #Cybercrime #BitcoinTracking #BitcoinAML pic.twitter.com/PEZZpvriXc
— scorechain (@scorechain) January 26, 2017
In a weblog post inward Oct of 2016, Bitfinex lead chances director Giancarlo Devasini offered an “enormous põrnikas bounty” to the hacker - payable inward a privacy-centric cryptocurrency similar Monero/Dash - inward telephone substitution for returning close of the stolen bitcoin, exactly no ane has come upward forth in addition to so far.
Komentar
Posting Komentar