2023-06-08
According to on-chain detective ZachXBT,
the hacker stole $35 million from many Atomic Wallet users. The $35 million
lost including $7.95 million in USDT. The five largest lost value $17
million. The single largest lost was $2.8 million.
On June 5, blockchain compliance analytics firm
Elliptic reported $35 million have been hacked from Atomic Wallet users
were sent to a crypto mixer website called sinbad.io as a part of money
laundering by the hacker.
Elliptic’s
investigations team is tracking the transactions, and found out that the stolen
funds are being swapped for Bitcoin, before being laundered through the sinbad.io mixer.
Crypto
mixing services have been used by many hackers for money laundering.
Latest update from Atomic Wallet on
June 8 stated that Atomic Wallet is cooperating with @chainalysis, a leading
Crypto Incident Investigator. They are currently tracking where the stolen funds
go.