As of May 9th, all of the funds have been consolidated into just seven addresses, each one holding around 1,000 bitcoins.
Bitcoin stolen in Binance hack moved to new addresses.
The exchange experienced a "Security breach" on May 8th, which resulted in over 7,000 bitcoins stolen from the exchange's hot wallet.
The proceedings from yesterday's hack-more than $42 million worth of BTC-have been moved several times to multiple different addresses, according to blockchain services company Coinfirm.
The #Binance hacker once again moved the #btc to new addresses! This time all of it according to analysis by https://t.
After we documented the movement of some yesterday(orange) all of the funds 7070.9 BTC were moved to 7 new addresses(red) pic.
Reports have also shown that those 21 addresses received 99.97% of the stolen funds.
The funds have since been moved to seven addresses, six of which hold 1,060.6 BTC, while one holds 707.1 BTC. Coinfirm, an anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing firm, was the first to analyze the transactions.
The hacked bitcoin addresses can be viewed on the blockchain explorer.
As of 5:00 PM UTC, May 9th. 2019, these addresses are holding the hacked bitcoins.
More than 7,000 Bitcoin stolen from Binance moved to seven BTC addresses
Publié le May 9, 2019
by Cryptoslate | Publié le Coinage
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