The whale-alert on Twitter reported the movement of more than $27 million in funds stolen from Bitfinex attack on 2016. The analytic tool from Twitter, who is responsible to track and alert large and suspicious transactions on the social network flagged the move on Monday, July 27 and the criminals are trying to sell or exchange it on privacy coins in this Bull season.
This hackers attack was realized on August 2016 and the criminals managed to steal 120,000 BTC worth $72 million in the current prices which led the exchange to create a native token to reimburse the affected users. Back in 2017 the crypto exchange bought back the last BFX tokens on market.
The whale-alert reported 9 transactions involving the funds stolen on Bitfinex with all of them completing more than $27 million, this fund's have been on track since the attack. It's normal to see this kind of attempts by criminals with purpose to whitelist this coins, they will try to mix-up the assets stolen with mixers exchangers to get privacy coins that can facilitate he movement and cashout of the assets.
Just to remember that more than 1 million BTC are in the hands of criminals spreaded on hackers, dark web and scammers.
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This is really alarming