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CipherTrace says they lost the trail on the twitter hackers when they threw the btc they scammed into mixers. On the other hand, the Feds arrested a kid in Flo
by jonathanliu 6y ago
CipherTrace says they lost the trail on the twitter hackers when they threw the btc they scammed into mixers.
On the other hand, the Feds arrested a kid in Florida, so my question is... how did they find him?
- unangst 6y agoFeds = mixers
- kbaker 6y ago> It's not so much loose ends as loose everything. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24013070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24013070
- phire 6y agoOnly 20% of the funds went into mixers. If I had to guess, the attack was done by a group of people and they split the funds up. Some of them were smarter than others. It's also possible that the people who have been arrested are simply people who have received stolen goods (knowingly or unknownly). Perhaps they traded something else of value for the Bitcoin and didn't know how dirty it was.
- rtsil 6y agoThere are other ways to track them than the trail of their BTCs. For instance, did they apply a proper opsec hygiene? Did they brag about it, to friends online or offline?
- rydre 6y ago4chan. He wrote it there, afaik from a Twitter comment with screenshot posted many days ago before the Feds announced the kid. Then bragged about it and went for more accounts. His friends left him when he went for the high profile accounts. I think it was organized on discord.