The hacker behind the theft of greater than $447 million of crypto from the crypto alternate FTX has been once more noticed shifting their ill-gotten funds.
According to Etherscan information, between 4:11 to 4:17 pm UTC on November 21, the attacker moved a complete of 180,000 Ether (ETH) across 12 newly created wallets — every receiving 15,000 ETH. The whole quantity moved totaled $199.3 million at present costs.
At the time of publication, the ETH has not moved from any of the 12 wallets.
Some in the crypto group counsel the attacker could also be planning to subdivide it into smaller and smaller quantities in order to confuse investigators, a course of referred to as “peel chaining,” or they might be planning to make use of a mixing service sooner or later to obscure which cash are theirs.
Meanwhile, some Ethereum customers seem to have despatched coded messages to the hacker asking for a share of the loot.
One consumer registered the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) area title, “ftx-rekt200k-pls-help.eth” to precise that they’ve misplaced cash from the FTX collapse and to ask for a reimbursement from the hacker.
They despatched 21 transactions of 0.000001 Ether to the hacker’s deal with in an try and get seen.
Another consumer was much more inventive. They registered the ENS area, “pleasecheckutf8data.eth” and despatched 12 transactions of 0.0001 ETH or much less to the hacker’s pockets deal with.
(*12*)An encoded message asking the FTX Accounts Drainer for a share of funds. Source: Etherscan
Inside every transaction was a UTF8 encoded message that mentioned “Please send me 100k~, I have medical bills to pay and visit the USA this coming December. I can’t walk properly, and have aggressive muscle issues. Please help! I lost most of my money on FTX.”
The message additionally contained a hyperlink to an Imgur submit which the consumer claimed was proof of their medical appointment.
Related: FTX hacker dumps 50,000 ETH, nonetheless amongst prime 40 Ether holders
The hack occurred on Nov. 11, the identical day that FTX filed for chapter 11 chapter safety.
On November 20, the attacker transferred 50,000 ETH to a separate pockets after which transformed it to Bitcoin utilizing two separate renBTC bridges.
As of in the present day, the hacker is the fortieth largest holder of ETH.