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Pipe CEO Ben Chu He stressed that $ 1.07 billion – 77 % of stolen assets in security breach of $ 1.4 billion – still can be tracked.
On March 4 to updateZhou revealed that the infiltrators succeeded in washing 280 million dollars, about 20 % of 499,000 Eth I stole.
Meanwhile, investigators managed to freeze $ 42 million, which represents 3 % of the risk.
Zhou stated that 11 independent fishermen had a $ 2.1 million reward to help freeze stolen assets. Among the major shareholders were Mantle, Paraswap and Blockchain investigator Zachbt.
The role of Thorsin
Zhou revealed that the attackers turned a lot of stolen eth to Bitcoin (BTC) during ThornsheneCentral platform designed for the assets ’clusters across the chain.
He stated that the infiltrators converted about 83 % of the stolen assets – the equivalent to 417348 ETH at a value of about one billion dollars – to BTC. Then they dispersed this money through 6,954 wallets, with an average balance of 1.71 BTC per wallet.
This activity greatly strengthened Torchin treatment Quantity In the last two weeks to more than $ 5.8 billion after breach bybit. Blockchain Embervn analyst also I mentioned The platform got approximately $ 5.5 million as fees of these transactions.
Blockchain security researcher, Taylor Monohn Thorchin, claimed that his structure enables criminal activities under the decentralization guise. She said that his system is working in an isolated ecosystem that benefits the informed and facilitates money laundering.
Monohn He said:
“[THORChain] It is in its small bubble, most of which are difficult and familiar criminals who have discovered how to take advantage of the aforementioned criminal flows directly or indirectly. “
However, Zhou stated that it is still possible to track the money transferred on the platform. According to him, it will be important to freeze money in the coming weeks before infiltrators tried to benefit from the central stock exchanges, the offices that do not need a prescription, and a counterpart network (P2P).
Eac and OKX involved
Meanwhile, Zhou also stated that stolen assets were transported by other platforms, including Excr and OKX Web3 agent.
Zhu revealed that 40233 ETH – about $ 100 million – has been transmitted through the WEB3 agent from OKX. From this amount, 16,680 ETH can be followed, while 23,553 ETH ($ 65 million) requires additional information from OKX to track.
Meanwhile, 79,655 ETH – 16 % of the total of stolenity – was transferred through Excr, a previously denied exchange that facilitated illegal transactions for BYBIT.
On February 23 statementXch has refuted calls that she had been laundering the funds associated with North Korea, but confirmed this:
“[An] Ultimately, enter a small portion of the money from the BYBIT Hate our address 0xf1da173228fcf015f43f3ea15abbb51f0D8f1123, which was an isolated condition and the only perpetuated part through our exchange, the fees that are donated for the public validity. “
