More than 77% of the funds stolen in a record trick in Crypto Exchange Bybit are still traceable, while 20% have “become dark” and are impossible to track, said CEO Ben Zhou in an early X update on Tuesday.
“This and next week is essential for the freezing of funds, since the funds will begin to clear in the exchanges, OTC and P2P,” Zhou said, referring to the efforts of the computer pirates to wash the money and turn it into cash.
About 417,348 ETHER (ETH), valued at approximately $ 1 billion, remain traceable in the block chain after being transferred using tortchain centered on privacy. Another 20% of the funds, approximately 79,655 ETH or $ 200 million, have “obscured” through exch.
A smaller portion, 40,233 ETH or $ 100 million, had passed through the OKX proxy web3, but 23,553 ETH, with a value of $ 65 million, remain impossible to track.
Zhou said the computer pirates made 83% of the stolen ETH – 361,255 eth; Or $ 900 million, in BTC, distributing it at 6,954 wallets, with an average of 1.71 BTC per wallet using Thorchain.
Thorchain has prosecuted $ 4.66 billion in Swaps in the week ending on March 2, the highest registered account, according to the defillma data source, which makes more than $ 5.5 million in rates of illicit flows.
The North Korean piracy group Lazarus attacked Bybit at the end of February by injecting malicious code in Safewallet, a third -party wallet platform used by the exchange, to steal billions in assets of customer clients of the exchange.
The attackers committed the developer’s device, which allowed them to manipulate a routine wallet transfer and divert almost $ 1.5 billion in ETH.
Bybit completely returned to 1: 1 of the client’s assets days after the attack, as Coindesk said previously. The management activity suggests that more than $ 400 million were bought through the free sale negotiation, with another $ 300 million brought directly from the exchanges.
