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The most plausible theory I've heard is that the attackers used a BTC tumbler that was a honeypot controlled by feds. But who knows, maybe the FBI has a quantu
by walexander 5y ago
The most plausible theory I've heard is that the attackers used a BTC tumbler that was a honeypot controlled by feds.
But who knows, maybe the FBI has a quantum computer we don't know about.
- answertojob 5y agothey don't :(
- Taek 5y agoSeems unlikely that the FBI sitting on a way to break ECDSA would use it to recover $2 million. Much more likely that there was a tumbler or exchange that they were able to link to the attacker and use to seize funds. Maybe they even have backdoors in some popular crypto wallets.
- mmaunder 5y agoMight cost more than $2MM in compute, but could be worth it to demonstrate capability.
- lordnacho 5y agoSounds plausible, that one. Also perhaps the ransom gang had a staging server with a bunch of keys somewhere. But the tumbler idea actually seems more plausible to me.