Chinese police, a large crypto para Four former employees of the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi were involved in a major crypto theft.
The individuals identified as Zhang, Dong, Liu, and Zhang Yi planted Trojan viruses in wallets, leading to the theft of over 40,000 user reminder codes and private keys. The specific amount of stolen cryptocurrencies was not disclosed.
The theft occurred before Justin Sun acquired the company. Huobi was once the largest cryptocurrency exchange in China.
According to Ping An Xuhui’s official WeChat account, employees decided to add a backdoor program to a virtual currency wallet software to obtain user private keys in early March 2023. After recording the stolen private keys and the corresponding parsed digital wallet addresses, they destroyed the server and database. They planned to use these private keys to illegally obtain users’ virtual currencies two years later.
Three people illegally obtained more than 27,000 mnemonic codes and more than 10,000 private keys, successfully changing more than 19,000 digital wallet addresses. In April 2024, the Xuhui District People’s Court sentenced the defendants Liu, Zhang A, and Dong to three years in prison and fined them 30,000 yuan for illegally obtaining computer information system data.
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Source: https://www.bitcoinsistemi.com/cin-polisinden-kripto-para-operasyonu/
