One hacker who drained $US400 million from customer wallets linked to bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is likely a company insider who used a mixture of different exchanges to consolidate the crypto tokens into three wallets that are now frozen.
is likely a company insider who used a mixture of different exchanges to consolidate the crypto tokens into three wallets now being watched closely.
FTX customers watched their account balances – which had been frozen during the week to stop a bank run – re-rate to $0. Mr Budorin said Hacken had also followed the blockchain transactions and found the looter mistakenly identified themselves while trying to use the Kraken crypto exchange.“We know the identity of the user,” Nick Percoco, chief security officer of crypto exchange Kraken, said at the weekend. That person is understood to be a US citizen.
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