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☐ ☆ ✇ WIRED

They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird

By Andy Greenberg — October 24th 2023 at 10:00
Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them.
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Citing Hamas, the US Wants to Treat Crypto "Mixers" as Suspected Money Launderers

By Andy Greenberg — October 19th 2023 at 22:59
With a new emphasis on the Hamas attacks on Israel, the US Treasury has proposed designating foreign cryptocurrency “mixer” services as money launderers and national security threats.
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New Clues Suggest Stolen FTX Funds Went to Russia-Linked Money Launderers

By Andy Greenberg — October 12th 2023 at 12:00
Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually some that look Russian in origin.
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Inside FTX’s All-Night Race to Stop a $1 Billion Crypto Heist

By Andy Greenberg — October 9th 2023 at 10:00
The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers. A WIRED investigation reveals the company’s “very crazy night” trying to stop them.
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North Korea Is Now Mining Crypto to Launder Its Stolen Loot

By Andy Greenberg — March 28th 2023 at 15:00
A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.
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Crypto Was Afraid to Show Its Face at SXSW 2023

By Eric Ravenscraft — March 26th 2023 at 11:00
Any mention of crypto was deliberately veiled at this year’s festival. And that strategy might catch on.
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Crypto Buyers Beware: 1 in 4 New Tokens of Any Value Is a Scam

By Andy Greenberg — February 16th 2023 at 13:00
And according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone.
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Most Criminal Cryptocurrency Funnels Through Just 5 Exchanges

By Andy Greenberg — January 26th 2023 at 17:00
The crypto money-laundering market is tighter than at any time in the past decade, and the few big players are moving a “shocking” amount of currency.
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I Lost $17,000 in Crypto. Here’s How to Avoid My Mistake

By Alexander Webb — November 24th 2022 at 13:00
I’m not the first person to suffer this fate, but hopefully I can be the last.
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The Hunt for the FTX Thieves Has Begun

By Andy Greenberg — November 13th 2022 at 23:38
Mysterious crooks took hundreds of millions of dollars from FTX just as it collapsed. Crypto-tracing blockchain analysis may provide an answer.
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