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The majority of the stolen crypto was taken in a period of around 20 minutes on October 29, according to analysis by crypto tracing firm TRM Labs.
WIRED reported, citing TRM Labs, that the majority of the stolen crypto was taken in around 20 minutes on 29 October.
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- Questions raised about approval controls during the 20-minute transfer: Context. Most funds taken in about 20 minutes.
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Tom Robinson of Elliptic stated that the remaining $3.3 billion is mostly Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP, which cannot be frozen.
“The remaining $3.3 billion is mostly Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP, which no one can freeze,” Robinson says.
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Tom Robinson of Elliptic stated that Binance says the attack began with a compromised engineer's laptop, which is a hallmark of TraderTraitor.
“Binance says the attack began with a compromised engineer’s laptop. Targeting crypto company staff is a TraderTraitor hallmark,” Elliptic’s Robinson says.
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Tom Robinson of Elliptic stated that North Korea is likely responsible for the hack.
“We think North Korea is likely responsible,” Tom Robinson, chief scientist and cofounder of Elliptic, tells WIRED.
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WIRED reported, before the FBI statement, that neither Binance nor law enforcement officials had named suspected links to North Korean hackers.
Neither Binance nor law enforcement officials have named any suspected links between the attack and North Korean hackers.
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WIRED quoted Elliptic's Tom Robinson as saying that around $2.8 billion, or around 44 percent of the total stolen, had been frozen so far, almost all of it stablecoins.
Elliptic’s Robinson says that around $2.8 billion, or around 44 percent of the total amount stolen, has been frozen by crypto companies and exchanges so far, with almost all of this being stablecoins.