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On-chain enactment suggests that the hacker has sent astatine slightest 225 BTC (4.5 million) to OKX truthful far.
Hackers who drained FTX and FTX USA of implicit $450 cardinal worthy of assets conscionable moments aft the doomed crypto speech filed for bankruptcy connected Nov. 11, proceed to determination assets astir successful an effort to launder the money.
A crypto expert who goes by ZachXBT connected Twitter alleged that the FTX hackers person transferred a information of the stolen funds to the OKX exchange, aft utilizing the Bitcoin mixer ChipMixer. The expert reported that astatine slightest 225 BTC — worthy $4.1 cardinal USD — has been sent to OKX truthful far.
1/ Myself and @bax1337 spent this past play looking into the FTX attacker’s deposits to ChipMixer.
It appears they’ve apt been transferring a information of the stolen FTX funds to OKX aft withdrawing from CM
So acold we’ve accounted for astatine slightest $4.1m (255 BTC) sent to OKX pic.twitter.com/C46JZWtktn
According to ZachXBT, the FTX hacker archetypal began depositing BTC into ChipMixer connected Nov. 20, aft utilizing Ren Bridge, a protocol that acts arsenic a span for cryptocurrencies. In his analysis, ZachXBT shared that helium had observed a signifier with addresses receiving funds from ChipMixer. According to him, each of the addresses follows a akin pattern; “withdrawal from CM”, “50% peels off” and past “50% deposited to OKX”.
Following the find of the deposits made to the OKX exchange, the Director of OKX shared connected Twitter that; “OKX is alert of the situation, and the squad is investigating the wallet flow.”
#OKX is alert of the situation, and the squad is investigating the wallet flow.
— lennixlai.eth (OKX) (@LennixOKX) November 29, 2022On Nov, 12, Cointelegraph reported that the hack was flagged right aft FTX announced bankruptcy. At the time, retired of the $663 cardinal drained, astir $477 cardinal were suspected to beryllium stolen, portion the remainder is believed to beryllium moved into unafraid retention by FTX themselves.
On Nov. 20, the hacker began transferring their Ether (ETH) holding to a caller wallet address. The FTX wallet drainer was the 27th largest ETH holder aft the hack, but dropped by 10 positions aft dumping 50,000 ETH.
The information that hackers managed to drain assets from FTX planetary and FTX.US astatine the aforesaid time, contempt these 2 entities being wholly independent, became a blistery taxable of treatment wrong the crypto community, and raised speculations astir it perchance being an wrong job.
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