On Tuesday morning, 94,643.29 bitcoins, or $3.55 billion, were transferred from a bitcoin wallet linked to the 2016 Bitfinex theft, via 26 transactions to an anonymous wallet.

The beginning was the transfer of 10 thousand bitcoins, worth more than $ 383 million, during the early hours of Tuesday morning, and the last time this money moved was in April 2021, when the hacker transferred the equivalent of $ 700 million to unknown wallets, where the money was laundered through Dark Web Markets.

Hydra is one of the best marketplaces on the dark web, as Hydra breaks the link between the monitored wallet and other transactions, Wasabi Wallet provides the necessary level of anonymity, including the ability to hide the connection not only to the Bitfinex hacker but also to the Russian Hydra market, and from It is clear that hackers use automation tools to reduce the chance of a mishap that could lead to their capture.

The transferred bitcoins represented 79% of the total 119,756 bitcoins stolen from Bitfinex in 2016, one of the largest bitcoin hacks in history.