Altcoin News: Bitcoins Stolen from Bitfinex in 2016, Began to Move to an Unknown Wallet

June 7, 2019, by Marko Vidrih on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

Twitter account Whale Alerts draws attention to the fact that this morning the wallets used to store Bitcoins stolen from the Bitfinex exchange several years ago suddenly came to life.

In total, five such transactions have been seen so far, outgoing from wallets marked “Bitfinex Hack 2016” to unknown wallets, totaling 172 BTC or $1.3 million.

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Bitfinex suffered from a hacker attack in 2016. Then, about 120,000 BTC were withdrawn from its wallets. These funds were marked by most major players of the crypto space as undesirable and since they mostly remained where they were placed after the hacking.

In February of this year, the US authorities returned Exchange 27.7 BTC, which managed to recover after the attack. It is assumed that if Bitfinex can get some more of the stolen Bitcoins, these funds will go to buy the LEO token, which it recently issued.

There is no additional information regarding the nature of today’s translations.

Author: Marko Vidrih