Bloomberg: FTX bankruptcy advisors provide customer information and transaction records to the FBI

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, court records show that FTX advisors have been providing information about customer accounts and transaction-related records to federal law enforcement agencies across the United States.

According to billing records provided by consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal, in recent months, the company's advisors have collected FTX customer data based on subpoenas from at least five FBI field offices, including information on specific customer transactions, account investigations, and filtering cloud computing data.

More importantly, FTX's customers will ultimately foot the bill for such tasks. Court records show that during July, August, and September, two advisors issued invoices totaling over $21,000 for FBI-related tasks.

Alvarez & Marsal stated in a court document that in response to a subpoena from the FBI's Philadelphia office, it extracted transaction data "related to specific device IDs" from FTX's cloud service provider in September. The company noted that FTX uses Amazon's cloud services and stores the private keys for billions of dollars in crypto assets on AWS security tools.