FTX Hack Mystery Possibly Solved: US Charges Trio with Theft, Including Infamous Attack on#CryptocurrencyExchange
The federal indictment does not identify Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX as the robbed company, but Bloomberg reported that it was.
The US federal government on Wednesday charged three people in a year-long phone hacking conspiracy that culminated in the infamous theft of $400 million from FTX as Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency exchange collapsed.
In an 18-page indictment filed in a D.C. court, prosecutors charged Robert Powell, Carter Rohn and Emily Hernandez with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and identity theft in their operation of a SIM swapping network that targeted fifty victims. between March 2021 and April 2023.
Their most notable heist occurred on November 11, 2022, when the trio siphoned $400 million from an unnamed company. Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter, said that company was FTX.
They gained access to a cryptocurrency exchange employee through AT&T and transferred hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency.
