Talking about this with friends. FBI doesn’t give any details, of course, but says they traced it to a Wallet and seized it. How do you think they got it back?
Our theories are:
-Traced it to an exchange, Forced it to be turned over
It is also possible, the government is running a mixing service, and recovered the coin when the hacking group tried to launder the stolen coin via mixer.
The government specifically did not reveal how they recovered the coin. If they had not specifically kept this a secret, I would have speculated they seized the coin when they deposited it to an exchange.
I would find it fairly unlikely the government hacked the hackers, and very unlikely they were able to crack their private keys.
Seems plausible. They would still need a seizure warrant, I assume, right? I can't imagine the hackers would leave the money in an exchange, although it's possiblle it was part of their laundering plan.
I suppose it's also possible the FBI just seized some innocent guys money after the hackers exchanged it several times by now.
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