Express News Service
BENGALURU: The United States’ Internal Revenue Service (Criminal Investigation) IRS-CI, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange hacking in 2016 has revealed an “India based email provider” quite a few times though no further details or names from India have been provided in the probe.
The IRS CI investigation has led to the recovery of 94,636 of the stolen bitcoins, “presently worth $3.629 billion.”
In his submission before the designated court, Christopher Janczewski, special Agent IRS-CI on February 7, 2022 stated that “the six accounts of virtual currency exchanges (VCEs) were all registered using email addresses hosted by the same India-based email provider, and that the eight VCE 1 accounts shared notable commonalities leading investigators to believe that they were owned by the same individual.”
Further, IRS CI investigations revealed that “similarly styled email addresses hosted by the same India based provider were accessed by the same IP addresses and created around the same time period surrounding the hack of Victim VCE (virtual currency exchange) in or around August 2016. The blockchain analysis revealed that stolen funds moved through AlphaBay (darknet market between December 2014 and July 2017) were also sent to accounts registered using an email address associated with the above-referenced India-based email provider.”
The FBI investigation…
