Attacked the Tether may be involved in other major hacks

 ｡◕‿◕｡  

The attack on Tether yesterday was stolen 30.95 million tokens USDT conditionally equivalent to the dollar. This news caused the decline of bitcoin is$ 300, and also serve as food for the next explosion of the charges against the owners of the Tether - in fact, exchange Bitfinex.

It is assumed that the private purse of the Tether system hacked by the same hacker or group, which has already been seen in other major hacks of the past years, the result of which was stolen cryptocurrency millions of dollars and at today's exchange rate, this amount increased tenfold.

At the moment considered to be a reliable episode from Bitstamp, which occurred in 2015. Then the attack was withdrawn 19 000 BTC (at the time about $ 5 million).

The investigation was conducted by the user SpeedflyChris on Reddit. He found a connection between the events of 2015 and the current "robbery" Tether. It is that purse that has been used to retrieve stolen from Bitstamp funds, transported them to the same address, where did the money stolen from the Tether. 

Further SpeedflyChris finds a big transfer 12,000 BTC with Chinese exchange Huobi in 2015, and puts forward the theory that the Chinese exchange was also hacked. However, the administration Huobi denies hacking and claims that it was a normal transaction. But who would want to withdraw 12 000 BTC, combine them with bitcoins stolen from exchange Bitstamp, and to translate it in batches of 1 000 BTC on BTC-e? Probably Huobi hid "small" in the framework of the burglary, in order not to create panic among the customers.

Next was the connection of these wallets with the service LocalBitcoins, where he was sold a small part of the stolen bitcoins. However, it is unlikely that such skilled hackers would so rudely to unfold. After all, if LocalBitcoins preserved the logs, the chances to track down the attackers increase dramatically. Theoretically, intelligence is sufficient available data to try to track who is behind it all.

After some time on Reddit there was a post where the author writes that it had acquired 10 million USDT, who were part of the recently stolen and blocked after hacking tokens. Now the author tries to figure out what to do.

Источник информации: https://bits.media/news/atakovavshie-tether-mogut-byt-prichastny-k-drugim-krupnym-vzlomam/