While the hackers trying to launder some of the assets stolen from Harmony’s (ONE) Horizon bridge were not successful, 124 Bitcoin (BTC) was recovered as a result of the work led by Binance and Huobi.
According to on-chain data, Harmony’s Horizon bridge 100 million dollars Some of the assets seized in the attack were mobilized again after a long time. blockchain detective ZachXBT In the post recently shared by hackers who took action last weekend, 64 million dollars worth of 41,000 ETH It was stated that they moved to different addresses.
Binance and Houbi unite against attackers
Assets whose transfers started as ETH initially until they are sent to Huobi after many transactions. to bitcoin found to be converted.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) made a in sharingconfirmed that cyber attackers are trying to launder their funds through Huobi. After this situation was detected by Binance, both teams a coordinated effort frozen digital assets invested by hackers. According to the statement made by CZ, after the interventions 124 Bitcoins recovered:
We’ve detected a Harmony One hacker fund movement. They tried to launder it on Binance before and we froze their accounts. This time he used Huobi. We helped the Huobi team freeze their account. In total, 124 BTC was recovered.
Post shared by CZ by quoting Reply Huobi consultant Justin Sunapproved the statements made, and due to the work done “that you are proud” he stated.
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