The Hackers Who Stole $523,000,000 and Escaped(for now)

[@Alex-ms9em]

Thank god, I just sat down with food

[@Rachel_M_]

What did you have? I'm making chicken madras tonight 😋

[@dull1312]

Same lol just went on my lunch break

[@vibewithryan]

I made some pasta 🍝

[@PupRubble]

I made food while watching this lmao. Kira makes perfect video essays for chilling

[@Josh-py9rq]

@@dull1312 Hey you are making me hungry lol

[@oldie.no.79]

They have friends in high places, or they themselves reside in high places. No one forgot - it was covered up

[@drippyd8131]

Yea and it's clear as day that it was a cover up. Clearly bitcoin founder is working with them to launder the money thru bitcoin therefore raising the price, the reason they don't seize bitcoin is because it's "clean" money but clearly its dirty money and the term "clean" is just used to cover up the scheme.

[@Rpgreat]

That is basically always the case. "For some reason they dropped the case and settled out of court" is the standard resolution if the case is so public that people dont let it go.

[@TheHighborn]

Or it was a government entity doing it.

[@smugshrug]

someday, someone will brag about it to the wrong person. that's how they'll get caught.

[@EctoKoolJoe42069]

No, they won’t. They’ll get away with it because what went down is different than you think…

[@lacedpill]

are u mentally 10 yrs old

[@arkarosh7043]

Looking at this I don't think that will happen :D It feels like it is much deeper than a lot of people can even imagine, otherwise they would have been found already ;)

[@FloridaMeng]

Lmfao imagine bragging about a crime. That's so misdemeanor 💅

[@user-iz2ff3nh3d]

That is how 80% of the mafia got cough they would have a few drinks & start talking in a room with outsiders around them It's human nature to want to talk about what we accomplish

[@ShatteredWindowpane]

Kira I encourage you to make another video on this topic and go deeper into the aspects that you deemed to be too much for this video. Your research on this is great work and could reopen the discussion on this along with this video

[@SpectralizerYT]

No need, it was a foreign Government, that's why it is a dead topic.

[@RichardBaran]

Pretty sure he meant he didn't have the legal authority to look into it further because he'd need to see the books of the exchanges

[@JaronPalone]

@@RichardBaranI thought he was saying it’s way too much work just for a KZbin video straight up. Like it would take waaaaay too much time

[@EctoKoolJoe42069]

SO much better an idea than jumping on the bandwagon of attacking LTT and talking about the downfall when a week later they’re worth more than ever 😂.. that was a bad time in Kira’s channel. It was sad. This is the stuff he should go after…

[@EctoKoolJoe42069]

@@SpectralizerYTso obvious it’s sad people can’t figure this out 😂😅

[@zh84]

Particularly excellent graphics on this one. Obviously a lot of work has gone into this. Well done!

[@EienRozen]

What if the goal was never to cash out the bitcoin, but instead make it seem like it was being laundered, and the reason it's sitting spread out across multiple exhanges is for the purpose of market manipulation? With amounts that large, you would be able to pump any coin you wanted, if you didn't care about losses on the accounts with stolen coins. Not to mention the tag alongs would end up holding some of the bags, thinking they were trading legitimate price action. You could coordinate to trade in the same coin pairs, and with outside crypto and clean wallets move the value without a direct link to the dirty coins. Just food for thought.

[@Jakkaribik1]

Only thing is to get more people in Crypto so the 600 Million seem small

[@Scorch428]

not enough

[@Jakkaribik1]

@@Scorch428 True it is never enough when A big Company has multiple Thousand more Bitcoins per Month or any other Stock they sell and buy with great influence.

[@yolo239fsko3]

well duhh? they sold NEM and boosted its price. the NEM devs loved it no doubt

[@Jakkaribik1]

I do not Crypto ever for the Last Years I do not Plan to do it Stocks are better and stay for the most Part Crypto can be Replaced and people jump to the next hype coin. A Real Company will not parish in the Next Day

[@williamwakefield1017]

the fact the hackers weren't caught without even trying to use tornado cash makes me think its some kind of CIA op where they're above the law

[@Unknown_Genius]

Not even. Just let it run through systems sitting in a country where data protection exists and you're done if you don't constantly access it for prolonged periods of times - getting the rights to actually see the logs takes longer than the logs are even allowed to be saved.

[@gftftt8463]

Same here. Gov job

[@eiervonsatan1679]

Send all money to different exchanges Use the funds and scripts to move the markets for lower cap alt coins while you either short or long it on different unrelated account funded by other means. You might not ever get near the whole pie but I’m sure you could have fun

[@hendrixjoe555]

If the FBI isn't after you for fraud or money laundering you have a 99% chance of not being caught; this makes sense cause it was a Japanese company and 💰.😂

[@DoNotTrustTrusts]

Finally a reasonable answer here. You can’t do this without government backing. Can’t be done. That’s the answer. That’s why the top ponies haven’t been corralled.

[@PinchyTheKittyGirl]

I like that Kira tries to solve crimes without his Deathnote.

[@anonony9081]

It's interesting that despite the many examples of people losing Bitcoin through their own stupidity the amount of Bitcoin stolen through hacks is significantly higher than all of the Bitcoin lost due to ignorance and mistakes with self-custody. Self-custody is always the answer, not your keys not your coins

[@fakenamerealchungus9851]

Not investing in virtual chuck e cheese tokens is a better answer

[@nonna_sof5889]

@@fakenamerealchungus9851Gambling*

[@steve7814]

I whole heartedly agree bitcoin and crypto is faith based currency. But i must contend that paper money is also a faith based currency.

[@gilded_lady]

​@@steve7814the difference is our fiat currency is the backbone of the global economy for a variety of reasons. Crypto doesn't have .01% of the same faith in it.

[@adrt478]

bitcoin isn't a faith based currency, its based on the blockchain & on code, code is law nobody can print bitcoin & nobody can change his value / hide transactions to the public, there is no "central bank" that can freeze your funds...@@steve7814

[@novelezra]

What makes this amazing is that in Japanese business you are expected to apologize publicly (a volunteer embarrassment) and you would never see any other crypto exchange do this.

[@88heiling]

It’s not embarrassing, it’s part of their culture.

[@novelezra]

@@88heiling Yes? It's very much part of their culture. But it's still embarrassing, that's the point of a public apology.

[@Slugbunny]

My brain couldn't parse "five hundred million," thought it was "five hundred thousand." 💀

[@Banexh]

😭 I’m sayin, shi crazy tho cuz that’s hella money 😂

[@Apple_Beshy]

​@@Banexhahh, some guy just lost 200 million in one day in investment, and oh btw he turn his 50k into 60 million in 3 years then after that, he turn that into $600 million in span of 1 week. - roaring kitty is the guy

[@mikolots]

Same here until I read this. WTF? That's half a billion!

[@Apple_Beshy]

Well tbf if they're not that desperate to withdraw all of their money, I must say they're already well off because they're not tempted to take it all, and also I bet they're someone big backing him/her/them up because to launder that so much money and not even a trace of it is really something else

[@umadbra]

Hey, remember the guy buying 2 large pizzas with bitcoins? 10,000 BTC... Let that sink in...

[@Unknown_Genius]

Yeah, back when it was worth absolutely nothing and 10k bitcoin could be mined in 3 1/2 days. That's nothing but a win win for both sides - the guy got pizza for something that was worth nothing and what he got back instantly and the guy who sold it to him got rich as well for finding it a fun idea (if he kept it for long enough). Let that part sink in.

[@umadbra]

@@Unknown_Genius I'll bet you any amount of the money they did not hold the BTC... Otherwise you'd hear about it.

[@Unknown_Genius]

@@umadbra Nah, you'd not hear about it, if they sold it during the first hype they'd just be one of those that made millions over night.

[@alastor8091]

Every time i think about it, i wanna rope. I couldve been free. My entire family couldve been free. We're only ever getting worse off. There is no escape. It was over before it even began. No, "beginning" was never a possibility in the first place.

[@CokesAndTokes]

Proof that Bitcoin is the best asset.

[@isbestlizard]

Any 'decentralised' currency that allows the project owners to blacklist or seize is not a decentralised currency, and is worthless to me. If you fuck up and lose $500 million by being an idiot, that's on you dude.

[@alliu6562]

Exactly, it’s not decentralized at all. Not anymore, anyway.

[@Watesoftheoasis]

Reasons why crypto is a joke

[@FPVogel]

tbf there is a handful of cryptocurrencies that are truly decentralized and untrackable, if i was to steal a big amount of crypto i would exchange it for monero and then slowly sell those off.

[@KS-PNW]

To be fair it's not like they can flip a switch and seize it. You'd have to send it to an online wallet/exchange and even then only if the exchange cooperates with the freeze/seize request.

[@deadlock_problem]

you do realize that those are off ramps and you have no idea what you are talking about, recovering hacks currency through forking of the chain is super super fucking hard and creates problems and most people won't be behind it and thus are fucked.

[@AllahHimself69]

7:30 "much like shakira's hips" LMFAOOOO

[@Otakumanu]

It's always funny despite he making that joke a lot.

[@dougray30]

I don't NEED to remember, I have Kira to educate me.

[@vanesslifeygo]

lol

[@EctoKoolJoe42069]

He just reports on things 5 years after they happen 😂

[@Mikesyndicate100]

Facts

[@DakotaZ162]

You should still remember, sad fact is people's ability to retain information is incredibly low now due to people just remembering the title of the video they watched or what they goggled to find the article the read or watched rather than remembering what they actually "learned" lol

[@erictroxell715]

I just feel OLD.... Lol at 57..I'm clueless but honest.

[@puroparafx]

They’re waiting for 7 years to pass for the statute of limitations in Japan.

[@Theodor_Bockemuehl]

30 years because 7 is only for minor crimes not serious ones.

[@KiuhKobold]

Friends of mine went from good people to NFT shillers, to AI techbros, and now these shitcoins are here again. Safe to say, they aren't my friends anymore.

[@steve7814]

Many condolences. I personally find solace in that what you describe is but another iteration of friends lost to conspiracism, religiosity, or political extremes. With the constant being, friends we once knew are now consumed by their fettered belief that they KNOW the answer.

[@pacsmile]

yeah, sounds like your "friend" will be better off without an envious person like you in its life

[@honor9lite1337]

😮

[@martymcfly88mph35]

Should've listened and bought BTC

[@Wastingsometimehere]

It's a religion. No gods, but the promise of paradise.

[@Stratxgy.]

Amazing video, and I love the editing style!

[@KarmaHoax]

I just lost my job and to see those numbers gets to me. I would love to be able to filter some of that cash so i can provide food and shelter to my 2 and a half year old little girl. Most just sits there. But then again life aint like that. No matter what we find out way. No one will help you. It is up to you. Just like the ones that lost their life savings in this hack. Kira, your the man. Keep on pumpin' out the great content!

[@FlyingGreenTea]

Dang it! I just found your channel and I'm glad I did. Love every bit of it! Thank you!

[@lifeofrjh]

The digital jenga and cluedo is mind boggling. Hacking is really no joke and to think it is possible to get away with it for so long. Magicians at their craft.

[@wardyorgason]

"much like shakira's hips, the blockchain does not lie"

[@bryanbundik]

indeed . ...

[@catalinloghin6499]

As far as I can tell, looks like an inside job. One wallet, one coin, one malware, it almost sounds too easy.

[@PrizrakNO]

KiraTV poured boiling milk on my skull at E3 2023

[@brandonmunda346]

That's a horrible thing to do to another person

[@JohnDBlue]

Bet someone would pay for this to be done to them 🤔

[@joshuafrimpong244]

bruh thats crazy

[@canyonohara1764]

he can't keep getting away with this

[@bobtime8269]

Kira just keeps getting away with it!

[@kpgamer-ym9uu]

The efficiency of this *sentinel Recover* is next level. To juggle walk throughs of various angles on the topic delivered to-camera, differnet content per topic from various folks underneath the umbrella of the track list of the larger big band concert itself is engaging and refined. To make a dense taccess like this so digestible is really something. Awesome work *sentinel Recover* !!

[@oyayemayafaro7307]

That line about Shakira and the transactions... my high ass is dyyying😂😂😂😂

[@42words]

ShaKiraTV

[@user-um9gq7uq5r]

CRYPTO SCAM VICTIM ? As a Retired combat Marine I want to tell you that as what you are doing is just as important as any warrior on the battlefield. You are waging warfare against these criminals and terrorists on the digital battlefield. You are defending and protecting the most vulnerable of our society against these predators. Keep up the good work *TECH SAFE GUARDIAN*

[@Alex-ms9em]

Never thought I’d hear a Shakira reference in a bitcoin video but here we are lmao

[@Shmack_]

Must be your first bitcoin video

[@cheesesniper473]

@@Shmack_ This made me laugh a lot harder than it should have.

[@bahamut256]

You know my dips don't lie (not law abiding)

[@garystinten9339]

​@@Shmack_the meme is "first time?"

[@JonathanCarvey1]

I had problem comprehending trading in general. I tried watching other KZbin trading channels, but they made the concepts more complicated. I was almost giving up until when i discovered content and explain everything in detail. The videos are easy to follow

[@Aaronbuster_]

I've been making a lot of looses trying to make profit trading. I thought trading on a demo account is just like trading the real market. Can anyone help me out or at least advise me on what to do?

[@Jeffrey_Ambrose]

Trading on a demo account can definitely feel similar to the real market, but there are some differences. It's important to remember that trading involves risks and it's normal to face looses sometimes. One piece of advice is to start small and gradually increase your investments as you gain more experience and confidence. It might also be helpful to seek guidance from experienced traders or do some research on different trading strategies.

[@Martinezrodi]

I will advise you should stop trading on your own if you keep losing.

[@Martinezrodi]

If you can, then get a professional to trade for you i think that way your assets are more secure

[@Martinezrodi]

I'd recommend Annabelle Hartfield, her profit is great even when there's a dip

[@George_M_]

An unknown entity? So, North Korea then?

[@KiraTV1]

Nk has pretty obvious tells, they move the money and start converting it really quickly. This doesn't fit any nation state Hackers.

[@Anshul001game]

The efficiency of this *TECH SAFE GUARDIAN* is next level. To juggle walk throughs of various angles on the topic delivered to-camera, different content per topic from various folks underneath the umbrella of the track list of the larger big band concert itself is engaging and refined. To make a dense access like this so digestible is really something. Awesome work james!!

[@xtremefurrycat]

I wonder how many accounts or wallets are out there are just dead wallets. Just wallets that are lost to people or forgotten about even if someone is no longer around to gain access to that wallet. Then the money just sits with no one able to get it or cash it out.

[@Sudegink]

Just from my own experience I can assure you that there's big % of BTC that is gone for good. I was mining BTC on my gaming pc the very first months of its creation, just for the sake of novelty. So did my friends who found out about it. Back in a day you could mine hundreds if not thousands of BTC a day... But at that point there was no real value anyone could perceive in it. The only thing you could buy with it was drugs on Tor network. But even that was sketchy af, because we were young and even if we wanted to try ordering something it was too scary to even attempt such thing being delivered to your address so, I stopped mining. I bet that my wallet alone would account for a small percentage of all of the BTC market. Unfortunately, that wallet could never be recovered.

[@vilhjj]

If they sent it to an exchange they did it so they could transfer it to a new wallet without the public being able to follow it, and did it under a fake account / stolen ID

[@bariyanirav1436]

Awesome work, *TECH SAFE GUARDIAN* ! It's so satisfying to see you putting in the effort to stop those shady characters. Protecting the public, especially the elderly, from those despicable con artists is crucial. You truly deserve recognition and appreciation for keeping us secure. I'm thrilled for you because you're my sibling. Your accomplishments definitely make you a strong contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. Keep up the outstanding performance!!!!!

[@jsalsman]

What are the chances that this isn't being monitored every second by law enforcement for withdraws?

[@clvrswine]

*withdrawls, not withdraws, you simple thing. You tried to be funny, but you failed. Don't comment if you haven't the chops.

[@traveller2378]

it would be interesting to see a video that does go down that other road - The one that would turn this video into something "different entirely." Anyway, excellent work.

[@SigurdVolsung]

Dude this is a great bit of investigative content creation, well done!

[@user-uh7qv1og1b]

The way this man is following btc is the way the government will too when they follow your moves

[@subconsciouslyinyahead7977]

They be hella slow

[@Enkaziel]

Kira, one thing you should consider is that those are not just transfers, they could be (and most likely are) payments sometimes. If you know where to look there are services that deal exclusively in coin, cutting out the government from the equation. Coin being one of the better ways to trade for services/products without having governments track ur activity (especially when it's less than legal) or taking their often ridiculously sizable cut.

[@Texelion3Dprints]

What if the real goal was to make all those bitcoins unavailaible, thus making them even more rare and driving the price up ? Meanwhile the hackers make money with legal bitcoins on the other side. It's like hoarding a reserve of diamonds to make them artificially rarer and more expensive. That's how cryptos work, right ? I'm not an expert.

[@antoniofernandesmarchetti1097]

Makes Sense!

[@mcghost2057]

Please do more of these Kira your level researcher and the depth you go into on your videos and how you present your findings are truly incredible. Massive respect for all your effort bro

[@Usmc913]

I don't know what it is but I could listen to your videos all day.

[@wm1573]

He speaks normally unlike many other video essay personalities in KZbin

[@lg6707]

Bless you Kira keep doing what you're doing many of us mere mortals need reminders of what some people do to other people in the name of greed. A bit how people have robin hood syndrome and don't realize those costs always get passed down. Someone scams insurance or rob a shop and people think oh its the insurance company or underwriters that suffer. Nah man they increase premiums and make you and I non thieves cover their real and forecasted losses

[@DeclanGaming323]

Rumors say some exchanges themselves were involved in the hack 👀

[@michaelmaenz4728]

You can make money out of stolen bitcoin parked on centralised exchanges by taking a loan and using the stolen bitcoin as collateral. Thats probably why they broke it up in chunks and put it on different public exchanges. The caveat is they have to pay the loan back but can invest real money (in crypto again) to make profits and live a luxurious life. As long as they don't default or bitcoin crashes completely it won't be necessary to cash out the stolen bitcoins.

[@Prem-qn1yz]

This channel is the sole exception where I haven't skipped the promo ads. Your finesse in effortlessly integrating promotional content within your videos is genuinely impressive. Sometimes, it takes a moment to recognize that you're endorsing anything; I commend *sentinel Recover* for your adept execution in this aspect

[@BalaramDas-sf8jq]

Hey ppl, I'm a retired computer/IT person, Yet I still find *sentinel Recover* so informative and straight forward. Thanks for your advise and helping the people...........Great work and love watching.

[@AmazingDOR]

Wow...just woooooow. And no one important has been caught??? WOOOOOOOW

[@anonony9081]

There's a ton of examples like this. The guy who ran the Canadian exchange quadriga disappeared into India and no one seems to care

[@fidelio9301]

Geniuses

[@fidelio9301]

@@anonony9081barely sociable did a video on that

[@jacobbachman4014]

This is normal for crypto as it’s pseudonymous, meaning accounts can be hid under pseudonymous with 0 way to get to the user behind it

[@DashingffKumar]

It just kept glitching on me when i tried this video tutorial. Thank you for this video firstly & Secondly thank you *sentinel Recover* I can’t get to the part of video selfie meeting you was a blessing in disguise. Keep up with the good work a lot of people will be needing your assistance in the nearest future.

[@LtColShingSides]

I think the reason everyone forgot about this is because there's a complete lack of empathy for losses in the crypto space. It's very much fuck around and find out, sucks to suck.

[@KiraTV1]

Nah, people in crypto remember and talk about the other hacks. I didn't mean people outside crypto, I dint expect them to remember something they likely never knew in the first place.

[@LtColShingSides]

@KiraTV1 sure people within the crypto space know and talk about, but few outside of the space are going to cate enough to bring a lot of attention to it. I think that's why the whole ordeal just faded away.

[@KiraTV1]

Yeah, you're just rewording why I disagree with your initial comment, as the thing I said in the video you're referencing is not aimed at the people you're then saying forgot. Again, to be clear, since your reply seems to indicate you didn't understand, people in crypto do not remember or discuss this. This is why it's weird and why I mentioned it in the video, making your comment about other people not applicable. As other hacks are discussed, frequently, and widely known in the space. This one isn't. Meaning it has nothing to do with how losses are handled.

[@tobymarshall8142]

One of your best videos so far. Nice one.

[@ski_ba]

If only I had just bought a few BTC when I was 18. Everyone thought it was a scam back then. I genuinely think that this is the worst decision ive ever made

[@Jakkaribik1]

Most Cryptos did go down.

[@vibewithryan]

Very fascinating stuff. Great video and love the visuals!

[@maheshzala115]

Y’all should stop calling everything “the bare minimum” when it’s literally not. Respect is the bare minimum, actually going out of your way to comfort and have an open ear for someone isn’t. Doing something like this is truly very nice and a great thing of him to do. I hope shit gets better for you and I salute *sentinel Recover* for being mature when it’s needed!

[@evaboeglin5690]

Love Kira’s videos though if I had to nitpick I wish he’d take the 10 seconds to look up the proper pronunciation of Japanese names

[@khalidwalid5746]

Glad to see Kira using the open distributed ledger for his investigation and believing everything he is seeing. Crypto is all suppose to be a scam though. Also, Tornado Cash did not tumble BTC (just an FYI). TORN is/was an ETH project that at best could tumble WBTC. So one would have to put the BTC in a virtual machine that would give WBTC, then you would have to tumble through TORN. Correct me if I am wrong.

[@tsheposeeletso6475]

What hackers? The guys who built are the ones that stole the money

[@TabuKat]

I just down understand it, do they keep moving the money in hopes that they will be able to later use the moves to obscure it? Are the thieves hoping for some new tech that facilitates this?

[@LOCKBlT]

Yea basically

[@c0lutch]

Depending on where they live, they could also be waiting for any statute of limitations to be reached. In the US, it’s a 5 year limit for grand larceny and for any cyber crime.

[@bubba99009]

Yea I'm not sure why they didn't start using mixers as soon as they became popular to start to hide the trail a bit.

[@Unknown_Genius]

@@bubba99009 honestly: probably not worth the risk. if you got that much money around and know that you can actually get away with it, why take the remaining risk to get it early? Even if you're working at McDonalds you can still live like that for a few years before moving into your new mansion.

[@Jakkaribik1]

Having Millions of Small accounts could give them the way to take out a smaller anmount like $20K every couple of days

[@BDB78]

Just discovered this channel. Excellent content! Subbed.

[@surajmaurya5566]

Everyone should have a dedicated person like you *sentinel Recover* . People dream of hiring such a talented expert like you. Keep up the hard work.

[@Peace-nz3jx]

Yea. Alphabet agencies

[@Khalith]

Crypto videos! I missed these.

[@djspectrein]

It will just take a genius person to solve this heist. Only time will tell

[@Peace-nz3jx]

My son told me years ago , a friend of my son had 1000s of bitcoins in since early days when btc wasn't worth much a few dollas . Around 2020 his got was arrested but dont know the reason and three letter agency comfiscated all.

[@TTIOttio]

It may be as simple as the original hackers no longer having a decent chunk of those funds - could they not have spent it at places that accept bitcoin? This would also explain why so much is sitting in exchanges…

[@garimahapur9018]

I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this. Because you're right. The worst thing that you can feel is hopelessness. And I hope that someone who is on the verge of losing hope finds *sentinel Recover* and realizes that as long as you're still alive and breathing, there's a chance, there's HOPE that the future is brighter then the present day.

[@ForexStoryteller]

Theyre moving and being mined each time they move.... They stole that, created an exchange, they're now moving all of this and getting paid legally by passing it through their own miner and getting paid to move their own money wallet to wallet ...

[@apocalypticpioneers2116]

Why don't people just convert to Monero?

[@KiraTV1]

What would that accomplish? There's still an entry point of the bitcoin and then you still need to find a way to cash out the monero to cash. The monero wouldn't be publicly traceable, but any offramp would either not have enough volume to facilitate moving any sizeable amount(plus create connections to other people who are now weak points for you) and/or have a web 2 footprint linking you to it.

[@apocalypticpioneers2116]

@@KiraTV1 Good point, but it would eliminate a lot of public traceability. I wonder if law enforcement has thought of that and they honeypot Monero for money laundering

[@KiraTV1]

They don't really need to honeypot anything. Eventually, all this stuff gets found as soon as it starts going off chain. Just how it is.

[@awex7]

@@apocalypticpioneers2116 nah they could use monero but would have to do such tiny amounts bc anyone would be sus of 100m worth of monero moving around

[@NoshikiYT]

Thanks Kira for educating us

[@Theodor_Bockemuehl]

In Japan serious crimes (murder etc.) expire after 30 years.. i believe thats their plan. To move the money 30 years and then cash out without consequences.

[@viktorvegh7842]

I cant believe that you are exchange with 500 mil worth of token in one normal wallet

[@lateformyownbirth]

I heard it as 'you'll need something like a tumblr' and was like, 'yeah, because there's no way anyone's going on that hellsite to find you'.

[@TheHighborn]

The funniest thing about this, is if they asked for monero instead of btc, this video would be a lot shorter

[@aeonstrife147]

Im feeling like North Korea got something to do with this

[@walls2ink]

7:27 I 👀 what you did there 😂

[@andrewchesebro868]

Can’t they put into into monero ? And do a completely anonymous exchanges into other coins?

[@BypassAccount-hp6ft]

Best videos to watch while doing homework or eating

[@mldybeats]

I think one of them done it themselves to their own company

[@owlic227]

what if it was coincheck themselves? its definitely some cover-up

[@ladywunderkind9390]

This one is a new favorite second only to the Quadriga case.

[@mauriceukaegbu620]

North Korea's Lazarus group may have pulled this.

[@abumikail4046]

What an excellent story. Thank you so much 👍

[@konradzukowski213]

Ok, recently I've watched a video about one of the largest bank heists in Japan's history and one detail from it may explain a lot here, so here's a speculation of mine: The entire hack might have been done within Japan's borders and possibly investigated by only Japan's law enforcement. That could explain why during the exchange of stolen coins only people from Japan who've purchased those coins were arrested. Going back to the video I mentioned earlier, apparently Japan has a 10 year period where they can investigate and persecute people for the crime. After that period, law enforcement drops the investigation and people responsible for the crime can't be persecuted and still can keep the money. That makes me believe that hackers (probably working in Japan) are simply waiting for the case to expire so they can legally cash out all the funds. And all those transfers are done only to make the investigation hard and decrease the chances of finding out people responsible.

[@helengaming7998]

You are a very talented analyst. cant believe i havent seen you before, great content 👍

[@evrfreez]

Remember everyone, Kira is NOT suicidal

[@clvrswine]

Dumb comment.

[@shironitheguardsman3998]

This look like a hiding in plain sight situation some one with a lot of power is beyond this in my opinion

[@Ctopper420]

Hackers stealing from crypto scammers? More power to them. There's no honor amongst thieves.

[@BisnumagarPalpali-yo8pu]

*TECH SAFE GUARDIAN* used his cyber services as a therapy session, taking us through a very chaotic mind and leaving us with a sense of peace and resolution at the end. He used this album as a way to document the breaking of generational curses that have kept his family toxic for so long while also giving the culture permission so that we can start breaking our own generational curses even if it means using him as the means to do so.

[@sespis2r]

"much like shakira's hips, the blockchain doesn't lie" wtf was that line lmao

[@magpieeuc4846]

What if they are waiting for the statute of limitations to run out, I checked and its only 15 years in Japan or 30 years if the crime is punishable by Life imprisonment. So in 9 more years they can freely spend the cash and who knows how much its going to be worth by then billions maybe, that kind of money has a lot of power attached to it

[@joeysfaded5990]

That old scam makes sense now remember hackers were telling everyone give them 100 bucks and get 500 instantly and so on makes sense now!!!

[@evryhndlestakn]

Great episode. Very interesting. Well done.

[@user-lx9jm1wo3h]

I think a lot of these "hacks" were the plan the whole time. Leave a little back door into your systems and oops. Gosh, we dont know how this happened, sorry guys.

[@Cloudsurfer69]

Maybe waiting for the impending financial crash

[@shown2grow737]

Amazing watch. Crazy how we exist with these currency’s with so much money vulnerable. So much of the world doesn’t associate with crypto yet. I can’t imagine how big hacks will be in the future. 14k Btc is definitely going to be hard to pass. Especially as value skyrockets.

[@restoreleader]

I would say, that it means the investigation is still ongoing, agents are waiting. And hackers obviously know this, which is why the cash is there and is so toxic and dangerous to withdraw it, that it will stay there.

[@wolff6592]

If I'm seeing this correctly the mastermind isn't worried about the large sums it's a distraction. He knew he'll never get it. Kira you need to track the shorter transactions happening he knows he can't get 980 million so he's getting 98 million out in chunks at a time then probably release the rest to wallets or just turn it in. Cause at this point he has made most of the original hack amount in stock price n counting. See the little transactions bet they've been cashing out 5 millions while you're looking at the 100 millions.

[@KiraTV1]

The little transactions loop back around through tons of wallets and slowly accumulate into larger ones again down the line.

[@wolff6592]

@@KiraTV1 interesting... doesn't make sense. Either they don't know how to get it out cause they don't have any exit strategy or they already caught all but one or two n they're waiting for the mastermind who was the caught one to tell them how to. Probably the latter. And it's a close close friend or relative cause no one in they're right mind would trust 980 million to just a dude im the crew. Lmfao...

[@KiraTV1]

There's really 0 exit strategy that exists. That's sort of the point. Any way to take it off the chain would create links to the real world, which is where law enforcement would be tracking people and not Bitcoin. There's zero evidence to suggest anyone had been caught.

[@RyanHarris77]

Anyone remember the BitGrail hack? Edit: it was more like an scam exchange that claimed to have been hacked, but either way they stole XRB.

[@ilike2pokypoky]

At first I thought it was chubyemu in the thumbnail 😂

[@MariaCalas2022]

The statute of limitations in japan theft for theft is 10 years so i don't think they getting into jaill