After the FTX hackers dumped 17,000 ETH and exchanged it for Bitcoin in the early hours of yesterday (21), in the early hours of today (22), they transferred large-scale stolen cryptocurrency again, andThis time the scale reached a whopping 180,000 ETH (about 200 million US dollars).
(Review:Newsletter” FTX hackers just left 17,000 ETH! Switch to renBTC and store in Bitcoin across chains)
(Background of the event:Bankruptcy lawyer: It can take “years to decades” to get FTX compensation! Because of the huge liquidation and realization project)
FThe tx bankruptcy and reorganization event ignited the financial tsunami in the cryptocurrency market, with more than 1 million victims worldwide and more than 10 billion US dollars in damages; to make matters worse, the exchange was reportedly hacked for 689 million US dollars. two weeks ago The cryptocurrency market and industry, which has fallen to the bottom, has led to a further blow.
Early in the morning (22nd), the Ethereum address had been identified as FTX Account Drainer (0x59AB…d32b), and a new round of money transfer activities began.
According to data on the Ethereum chain, the address transferred 180,000 $ETH (about 200 million US dollars) in batches of 15,000 to 12 newly created addresses in just 7 minutes.
It is understood that this is another wave of large-scale transfers of funds stolen by FTX hackers after selling 17,000 ETH yesterday; the analysis of the dynamic domain shows that the hacker could imitate yesterday’s pattern of behavior and transfer the ETH (200 million ETH) USD stolen money) dumped and bridged to the Bitcoin blockchain .
This round of money transfers ended at around 00:21. According to statistics, after this round of fund outflows, the remaining assets of the FTX hacker’s address were left in place, 5,735 $ETH, 14.25 million $PAXG … and dozens of listed Token chains, the total value that remaining approximately 6.37 million US dollars.
As of writing, although the 12 addresses transferred to ETH by this account have yet to have any further capital movements, WatcherGuru, a well-known on-chain tracking channel, predicts that this batch of ETH is very likely to follow a pattern sold yesterday, after being sold and replaced by reBTC , transferred to the Bitcoin blockchain for storage.
Hackers are selling ETH!After converting to renBTC, cross-chain to Bitcoin mainnet for money laundering
DongZone previously reported that FTX had successively converted the stolen money into renBTC as early as yesterday, and mapped it to the main Bitcoin network for storage.
According to the statistics of the moving domain, the address (bc1qaq…6n0702), which is considered the hacker’s bitcoin wallet, has received a total of 11,604 $ BTC (the current value is about 185 million dollars of US) in the past 3 days, and all the illegal earnings have been dispersed to different bitcoin wallets.
The hacker’s large-scale transfer operation ended around 00:32 am today (22nd). According to data from the Bitcoin blockchain browser Btc.com, after the FTX hacker transferred the last transaction of 290 BTC at that time, the Bitcoin The currency address charges have been reduced to zero.
Ethereum falls below $1,100, Bitcoin bottoms out at $15,500
Under the simultaneous influence of FTX bankruptcy shock, market panic, and hackers selling stolen goods, the cryptocurrency market fell sharply again and broke the previous low.
As of 2:00 in the morning, ETH has introduced a new wave of decline, and has now fallen below the 1100 mark, with a one-day cumulative decline of nearly 7%. Bitcoin fell more than 4% within 1 hour, once falling below the 15,500 mark was touched at $15,461.
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