Anonymous Bitcoin (BTC) miner terrorists threatened to blow up numerous buildings across Russia, demanding 120 Bitcoin. These Bitcoins were stolen from now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange WEX.

Starting from November 28 more than 750,000 people have been evacuated in Russia because of anonymous bomb threats. According to Russian news agency Interfax, the Bitcoin blackmailers ”mined” over 25 courts, up to 200 educational institutions, almost all the metro stations in Moscow and over 100 engineering buildings, demanding 120 Bitcoin ($870,000) stolen from the WEX exchange to be sent to their address.

Despite all the reports being fake, on December 9 there was a small fraction of Bitcoin worth $0.48 sent to the address.

The matter is rooted in the BBC report published in November. It relates the story of Alexei Bilyuchenko, reportedly the administrator of WEX.

He said that Konstantin Malofeev, a Russian oligarch, and a former officer of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Anton Nemkin, demanded all the Bitcoin for the ”FSB fund” and user database of WEX be handed over to them.

WEX had no choice but to freeze withdrawals and cease operations. Last year its CEO Dmitri Vasilev sold it to one of Malofeev’s buddies Dmitri Khavchenko.

Between July and October 2018 millions of dollars disappeared from WEX’s wallets. This forced the exchange’s users to address the police, seeking official investigation. Following this matter, Vasilev was arrested in Italy, but later released.