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Re: BTC-e hacked ??
by
locked_in
on 01/08/2017, 02:26:09 UTC
I am going to try to explain this to you guys in very simple terms and short sentences, in the hope that everyone understands it:

* BTC-e is gone.  It will never come back online
* BTC-e's servers have been seized by the USA FBI
* The USDOJ indictment of BTC-e was from JANUARY 2017
* It was only unsealed after Alex Vinnik vacationed in Greece and they saw an opportunity to arrest him
* The USDOJ sat on the sealed indictment for SEVEN MONTHS waiting for Alex Vinnik to leave whatever safe-haven country he was in so they could arrest him.  Then he went to Greece for "holiday" and they swooped in.  They were sitting on this for the last seven months.  Waiting.
* BTC-e had servers in Secaucus, New Jersey, USA.  This is easily verifiable if you look up the DNS history for btc-e.com and blockchain history.  They had at least SIX different IP addresses acting as either full bitcoin nodes or at least wallets from 2011-2014.  The were running their servers in USA.  Just as the USDOJ indictment says they were.
* The FBI had access to the servers for a long time.  They likely monitored them with pensticks (bridge adapters that dump all network traffic to a connected hard drive) and took images of the servers' hard disks.  They could have done this easily and it could have been done frequently over the last few years.  The server were only just seized this last week, but they probably already had been monitoring the servers the last year+

The FBI has everything.  BTC-e is gone.  Anyone remaining at BTC-e are FUGITIVES from USA FBI and will definitely disappear or be caught.