According to a Bloomberg report on Dec. 27, the US Department of Justice hasstartThe investigation for the whereabouts of approximately $372 million of missing digital assets from FTX and FTX US dates back to Nov. 12. Amid bankruptcies and collapses, FTX warned clients about unusual wallet activity on Ether. ( ETH ) At least 228,523 items transferred by hackers.
On Nov. 11 — the day the company filed for bankruptcy — FTX US General Counsel Ryne Miller confirmed that such transactions were not authorized and that the exchange moved all crypto to cold wallets as a precaution. And on November 20, blockchain company Elliptic The unauthorized transfer was worth $477 million, and the hacker converted the stolen Ether to RenBTC before being bridged to Bitcoin (BTC) via the RenBridge service, which Ren was purchased by Alameda Research, a Hee-fund. The 2021 FTX-linked dedge fund has been accused by Elliptic of “laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto.”
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried alleges the incident was committed by a former FTX employee or anyone else with unauthorized access to a former employee’s computer. “I can only answer that there are only eight people. But I don’t know which one,” he said in an interview with reporter Tiffany Fong.
In a recent update on Nov. 29, crypto analyst ZachXBT said that part of the stolen funds were transferred to Singapore-based exchange OKX using a Bitcoin transaction masking service. OKX’s manager replied, “#OKX is aware of the situation. And the team is investigating the flow of wallets.”
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