Bitcoin (BTC) worth around $140,000 was moved today from a wallet that was previously linked by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to North Korean hackers, according to Whale Alert, a Twitter bot that tracks noteworthy cryptocurrency transactions.<\/p>\n
As Decrypt reported, the DoJ has recently filed a civil forfeiture complaint against 280 cryptocurrency accounts allegedly used by North Korean hackers to launder nearly $3 million of funds stolen in two separate 2019 attacks.<\/p>\n
The complaint alleges that \"Chinese OTC traders\" from an unnamed exchange helped launder those funds. The DoJ also added that the same individuals laundered funds for North Korea in a $250 million hack in 2018.<\/p>\n
Despite the highly sophisticated laundering techniques used, IRS-CIs Cybercrimes Unit was able to successfully trace stolen funds directly back to North Korean actors, said Don Fort, the chief of IRS Criminal Investigation.<\/p>\n
According to Whale Alert, 12 BTC sent today originated from one of the accounts listed in the DoJs complaint.<\/p>\n
One of the inputs of this transaction has been listed by the US government as forfeited, Whale Alert tweeted, adding that The forfeited address is possibly a Huobi deposit address that received 2.97069728 BTC a few days ago. The address was sweeped today together with deposits made by other users.<\/p>\n
Whale Alert added that it is currently unclear who made the transaction.<\/p>\n
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