Data: U.S. government addresses suspected of being hacked, $20 million in cryptocurrency stolen
ChainCatcher news reports that, according to Arkham monitoring, a cryptocurrency wallet associated with the U.S. government has allegedly been hacked, resulting in approximately $20 million in assets being stolen. The stolen funds originated from a portion of the assets seized by the U.S. government during the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack.The attackers transferred the stolen funds to a wallet address starting with "0x348". The stolen assets include various cryptocurrencies such as USDC, USDT, aUSDC, and ETH. Arkham reports that the hackers have begun converting stablecoins into Ethereum and laundering the funds through addresses suspected to be linked to money laundering services.Specifically, the attacked U.S. government address is 0xc9E6E51C7dA9FF1198fdC5b3369EfeDA9b19C34c, which previously received funds related to the Bitfinex hack from 9 different government seizure addresses. This includes the address 0xE2F699AB099e97Db1CF0b13993c31C7ee42FB2ac, which was named in the court documents of the Bitfinex case.Previous news reported that the U.S. government address withdrew $6.57 million in stablecoins from Aave, which were then exchanged for 2,135 ETH.