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Hackers have cashed out on $143,000 of bitcoin from the massive WannaCry ransomware attack

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Dissent

Ryan Browne reports:

Hackers have cashed out on more than $143,000 worth of bitcoin relating to ransoms paid from the massive WannaCry cyber-attack earlier this year.

Bitcoin payments made by victims of the WannaCry ransomware attack – which totaled 52.2 BTC (around $143,000) – were withdrawn from online wallets overnight.

This was confirmed by Elliptic, a London-based start-up that helps law enforcement authorities track down criminals using the cryptocurrency.

Read more on CNBC.

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1 thought on “Hackers have cashed out on $143,000 of bitcoin from the massive WannaCry ransomware attack”

  1. Jason says:
    August 3, 2017 at 11:22 am

    It doesn’t appear they cashed out, just moved funds to other addresses where the bulk of coins still remain.

    For example 13AM4VW2dhxYgXeQepoHkHSQuy6NgaEb94 is one of the original payment addresses where there was ~ 9.56 BTC till this morning.

    You can track that from there to 1H68h8qsVkMUgY8khcdFpbHV22cCnC74dk
    to 1H68h8qsVkMUgY8khcdFpbHV22cCnC74dk
    to 1Em7vKSqAnFMpejf3fSPSQdxrx99ma856h
    where ~7 BTC still remain and the rest was shifted to some other addresses.

    I believe this indicates it was not cashed out so much as moved around.

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