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Key Takeaways
- FBI attributes the $6 billion theft to North Korea.
- Stolen funds are moving mainly into ETH.
- THORChain can halt its network, not single swaps.
- A blocked transaction is not a recovered one.
In its October 31 announcement, the bureau attributed the theft of more than $6 billion to activity it tracks as TraderTraitor, settling the question of North Korean responsibility that had hung over the case.
Why the request goes to infrastructure
The FBI, Secret Service and IRS Criminal Investigation asked THORNode operators, RPC operators, instant exchanges, DeFi services, analytics firms and other virtual-asset providers to block transactions linked to the addresses they published. The agencies say the stolen assets are being converted mainly into ETH, and they expect further laundering through DeFi and i...
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