The stolen funds from BTC.com were locked by Tornado Cash and Cexs: Report

The stolen funds from BTC.com were locked by Tornado Cash and Cexs: Report

The prominent cryptocurrency mining pool BTC.com suffered a cyber attack last month, which led to a significant loss of corporate and user funds. New details have appeared about the whereabouts of the stolen funds.

According to the analysis of the market research company X-Explore, most stolen assets were transferred to Tornado Cash, while some amounts were also transferred to the centralized stock exchanges.

• a BTC-Wallet Transfer 32.5 BTC worth around 550,000 $ is suspected of being stolen. The perpetrators could have washed the funds with the help of a centralized BTC mixer.
• X-Explore also claims that a total of 1.964 ETH worth around 2.4 million US dollars were deposited on four new addresses and then to the fins of Coin Mixer and other stock exchanges.
• As already reported, the attackers are stole digital assets worth $ 700,000, which belonged to the BTC.com customer, and almost $ 2.3 million in assets that belong to the parent company BIT.
• The cyber attack was reported to the law enforcement authorities of Shenzhen in China a few weeks later, which then initiated and began to collect evidence on Friday.
• After the discovery of the violation, BTC.com said that his team had implemented a technology that is designed to block and intercept hackers.
• btc.com is one of the world's largest cryptocurrency mining pools, which has issued 3.8 % of the total mining pool distribution in the past seven days. The latest data indicates that the hash rate was 10.27 exahashes per second (EH/S).