Bitfinex hackers move another $30M in stolen Bitcoin from 2016
The Bitfinex hackers have moved thousands of Bitcoins in 2020. Bitcoins (BTC) stolen from major cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex back in 2016 are on the move again, as hackers shift another massive batch of funds to unknown wallets.According to data from crypto transaction tracking service Whale Alert, Bitfinex hackers moved more than $4.6 million in stolen BTC on Oct. 8. These funds were sent to unknown wallets in two separate transactions of 435 BTC and 8 BTC.But the hackers have moved far more than this amount earlier this week. According to Whale Alert, Bitfinex hackers completed seven....
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The receiving wallet address now holds more than 90,000 Bitcoin worth about $3.6 billion. A chunk of the inactive Bitcoins (BTC) stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack has moved from the hacker’s wallets to an unknown wallet on Tuesday, as detected by blockchain analytics bot Whale Alerts.20 transactions involving the stolen Bitcoins were flagged. A sum of 64,641.29 BTC, worth almost $2.5 billion at the time of writing, was moved. This is more than half of the total amount seized by the hackers which are estimated to be around 120,000 BTC.The biggest transaction detected was around....
The Bitfinex hack had been one of the most popular hacks when it occurred. At that point, bitcoin was still in its very early stages and was still reeling from the Mt Gox shutdown even years later. When the hack occurred, the attackers had made off with 119,756 BTC successfully. They had moved out of the stash gradually over time but recently, the biggest move from the hackers came when they moved $3.8 billion worth of bitcoin. Hackers Move 10,000 BTC The Bitfinex hackers have moved 10,000 BTC from a stash that has been there since 2016. There have been BTC moved from the wallets....
The exchange's pilfered funds are on the move once again. Back in 2016, 119,756 Bitcoin were stolen from the Bitfinex crypto exchange. Some of these coins have continued to move between wallets over the years, including as recently as Monday.Blockchain data shows that an unknown crypto user has moved 270.97974 Bitcoin (BTC) from a wallet associated with the hack. The sum is worth roughly $5.2 million at time of publication. The address 1GytseWXyzGpmHkcv9uDzkU9D8pLaGyR5x, which is believed to be associated with the hack, shows less than 0.001 BTC remaining. The BTC were sent to a previously....
More than 10,000 BTC stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 has been moved to a new address.
Following the security breach that shook the Bitcoin community, the victimized digital currency exchange BitFinex yesterday revealed the damages it faced. The exchange’s communication manager Zane Tackett reported on Reddit that BitFinex has lost around 119,756 BTC (~$72 million) in the recent theft. As the law enforcers continue investigating the matter, Tackett didn’t reveal further details in the public domain. Bitfinex, meanwhile, has also roped in some of the top blockchain analytics companies to track the stolen bitcoin. The exchange hopes to identify the hackers, as well as their....