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Hackers move more than $26 million in bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex in 2016
More than $26 million in bitcoin tied to the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex was moved across seven transactions on Wednesday. The transactions, captured by the Twitter-based data bot Whale Alert, are the first of their kind since August. Six of Wednesday’s transactions ranged between $4.1 million and $4.8 million in value, with one smaller transaction of about $12,000. A wave of transactions of stolen bitcoin took place in late July and early August, as previously reported. In the wake of those transactions in August, Bitfinex published a statement in which it pledged rewards to efforts leading to the ... (full story)
