Changpeng Zhao said that,FBI、USSS、IRS and other agencies assisted in tracking and freezing funds in the Binance theft incident, which he believes helped prevent Bitcoin from falling further to some extent.
Crypto data account unfolded. stated that 2019 Since [year], North Korea-linked crypto hacker attacks have cumulatively involved approximately 9600000000 USD, of which Binance-related theft incidents accounted for approximately 6400000000 USD. The attribution of some recent incidents mainly comes from security companies and has not yet been FBI confirmed.
PANews cited USDT0 co-founder zerolore as saying that the team froze Polygon 6180000 stolen USDT0 tokens and had suspended the cross-chain channel between TRON and Ethereum. He said Tether had frozen over 1300000000 USD of the stolen USDT, and the related transfers have resumed.
He Yi said that Aave of the collateral pledged by the hacker 60000000 USDT was not completely frozen, and approximately 46000000 USD ETH was actually borrowed; if the funds are unfrozen through the law enforcement system, approximately 14000000 USD。
A Ripple executive said the team is freezing funds related to the potential Binance attack RLUSD, and is assisting relevant parties with the investigation and user-protection efforts.
Market reports say that Tether has frozen assets suspected to be related to Binance's large abnormal outflow 971000000 USD USDT; another approximately 820000000 USD USDC is reportedly still unfrozen, and the relevant claims remain to be verified.
WLFI Co-founder and CEO Zach Witkoff stated that USD1 has proactively frozen approximately Binance related to the hacking incident 27000000 USD in funds, and will work with industry partners to protect users and prevent the transfer of funds.
Cross-border payments company Conduit said it had sued Tether in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, demanding the unfreezing of more than 1 years’ worth of 2760000 USD USDT and claiming at least the same amount in damages.
ZachXBT said he infiltrated, as a customer, a network suspected of laundering money for hackers linked to Lazarus, and that the intelligence he provided advanced the partial freezing and attribution of stolen Bybit funds.
On-chain investigator tanuki42 said that Circle froze another batch of funds related to Bitget stolen funds, totaling approximately 211000 USD USDC The related cross-chain transfer was stranded due to Noble-side capacity restrictions, and may subsequently be recovered through legal proceedings.
Beijing's Shijingshan police said they recently intercepted a cross-border telecom fraud case, freezing and returning 780000 yuan in funds involved in the case. The scammers were accused of inducing Chinese international students overseas to exchange “U coins” to assist with transferring funds.
Onchain investigator ZachXBT said that Greavys, Wiz and Box allegedly stole from a victim 243000000 USD, and that his investigation has helped lead to the arrest of multiple people and the freezing of millions USD.