Hackers Move Over $26 Million of BTC Stolen from Bitfinex in 2016
Hackers have moved more than $26 million worth of bitcoin associated with the hack that cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex suffered in 2016, in which nearly 120,000 BTC were stolen.
Twitter-based transaction monitoring bot Whale Alert detected the transactions, which are the first of their kind since August. The funds were moved in a total of seven transactions, six of which ranged between $4.1 million and $4.8 million in value.
Bitfinex’s hackers have been actively moving funds on the blockchain this year. In the wake of these movements, the cryptocurrency exchange revealed it would reward efforts leading to the recovered of the stolen funds, even if the hackers were the ones to voluntarily hand them over.
It’s unclear whether the hackers have been able to launder any portion of the funds they stole from the cryptocurrency exchange.
