US prosecutors accuse a man of remotely swiping 713 bitcoins from a hardware wallet seized in a case against his brother, who ran crypto mixing service Helix
the Feds had a Trezor but they never actually had the private keys. End mystery. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : READ, if only for the lede: Feds locked up a storage device full of ill-gotten cryptocurrency. Then someone started stealing the loot https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW @weldpond : Unplugging the wallet & physically locking it away is no protection. Brown warned that Larry could remotely take Bitcoin & the govt would be powerless to stop it. “Until we can secure them & transfer them to a govt wallet, those are available for transfer"https://www.bloomberg.com/ ...
One of the best crypto crime caper stories I've read in a while. A guy stole Bitcoin from a hard wallet locked in an evidence room! https://www.bloomberg.com/...
READ, if only for the lede: Feds locked up a storage device full of ill-gotten cryptocurrency. Then someone started stealing the loot https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW
Unplugging the wallet & physically locking it away is no protection. Brown warned that Larry could remotely take Bitcoin & the govt would be powerless to stop it. “Until we can secure them & transfer them to a govt wallet, those are available for transfer"https://www.bloomberg.co…