Did the hacker get cold feet now after blockchain sleuths started working to track them down?
"We both know $7 million is enough to live very comfortably, but $70 million will keep you up at night," one of the messages , a trader lost a staggering $68 million worth of wrapped Bitcoin by sending the aforementioned sum to a fraudulent address that looked almost identical to the real one.Address poisoning involves sending spam transactions from almost identical addresses.
The fact that someone with such a huge amount of crypto fell for such a relatively simple ruse puzzled many members of the cryptocurrency community. Shortly after scamming the traders out of their millions, the hacker started converting the ill-gotten funds into multiple Ethereum addresses. However, some experts noted that it would be very challenging for the hacker to actually launder these funds without getting caught. SlowMist, a blockchain security firm, recently further explored the incident. It identified several IPs of the hacker that originate from Hong Kong-based mobile stations. However, it was possible that a VPN was used for conducting the transactions. The hacker also conducted similar attacks on the Tron network.
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