On August 19, unknown individuals stole 738 BTC from an investor, covering their digital traces through the Wasabi Bitcoin wallet, which provides privacy features. The incident occurred in the first half of the day, and the money laundering started a day after the theft, ZachXBT reported.
According to the detective, the criminals posed as employees of the exchange's technical support and hardware wallet, managing to convince the Bitcoin owner to transfer them to a new, supposedly safe address.
ZachXBT recommended treating any calls or emails from exchanges as 'fraud by default.' He said he does not have data on those who stole the Bitcoins but rules out the involvement of North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group in the attack.
Previously, ZachXBT criticized the cryptocurrency project BlockDAG, which planned to merge blockchain and directed acyclic graph (DAG) technology, for its excessively prolonged token pre-sale.