
Some people who sent small amounts of BTC to the wallets of the hacker who carried out the Binance hack attack asked for help through messages and gave money laundering tactics.
Following the Binance hack attack on Thursday evening, some people asked for help and used a money laundering tactic by sending small amounts of BTC to the hacker's Bitcoin wallets.
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A hack attack was carried out on the Binance exchange on Thursday evening and the hacker stole more than 18 thousand BTC.
The Binance hack attack, which caused a great shock in the crypto world on Thursday evening, was closely followed by the financial world, and some began to beg for money from the hacker.
Sent money to all wallets, received no response
As it is known, in the Bitcoin blockchain, when transferring BTC to an address, there is a situation of adding a short message to the transaction. And people started sending small amounts of BTC to the hacker's Bitcoin wallets and requesting larger amounts of BTC from him. In fact, on-chain records show that a person sent 3 times to 19 different wallets holding BTC and added the message "Help me, brother" to each sending. This person, who sent messages 57 times in total, also paid a transaction fee of $46. However, this person could not receive any response from the hacker.
As it is known, the hacker divided the more than 18 thousand BTC he stole into the first 19 wallets and had not moved it since then.
They gave a money laundering tactic: "Don't give it to CZ"
Some gave the hacker a money laundering tactic. In the messages sent to the hacker's two different Bitcoin addresses on Friday, it appears that it was said: "Exchange your money via THORChain and never give it back to CZ."
In another message, the hacker was again told not to accept the reward offer.

After the $6.3 billion hack attack on the Binance exchange last week, Changpeng Zhao stated in his YouTube interview with Coindesk that artificial intelligence should be integrated into cyber defense systems, more attacks will come and the traditional financial world is also under threat.

Half of the approximately 15,000 BTC in the SAFU fund, established in 2018, was used in four transactions on October 31 to compensate for reserves lost in last week's hack.

On-chain analyst ZachXBT announced that a major Western European financial institution was hacked, bringing the total loss to $133 million. Stating that the incident was hidden, the analyst stated that the funds could be frozen if a statement was made.

Blockchain analysis company Elliptic announced that the Binance hacker started laundering 28 BTC using the CoinJoin mixer method. The hacker converted the stolen TRX and ETH into BTC and sent them to the mixing process.

It was claimed that artificial intelligence and social engineering tactics were used in the latest Binance attack, reportedly carried out by the North Korean TraderTraitor group.

Following the cyber attack on Binance, Binance TR announced that it temporarily stopped cryptocurrency withdrawals as a precaution, stating that user assets are safe.