$2.5B in stolen BTC from Bitfinex hack awakens
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....
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More than 10,000 BTC stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 has been moved to a new address.