Andy Greenberg

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They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird

At 9:30 am on a Wednesday in late September, a hacker who asked to be called Tom Smith sent me a nonsensical text message: “query voltage recurrence.”Those three words were proof of...

Citing Hamas, the US Wants to Treat Crypto “Mixers” as Suspected Money Launderers

Hamas’ attacks Against Israel on October 7 have shifted the geopolitical landscape and triggered a looming Israeli ground assault in the Gaza Strip. Now the ripple effects are reaching the cryptocurrency industry,...

New Clues Suggest Stolen FTX Funds Went to Russia-Linked Money Launderers

As the criminal trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried unfolds in a Manhattan courtroom, some observers in the cryptocurrency world have been watching a different FTX-related crime in progress: The still-unidentified thieves...

Inside FTX’s All-Night Race to Stop a $1 Billion Crypto Heist

By the evening of November 11 of last year, FTX’s staff had already endured one of the worst days in the company’s short life. What had recently been one of the world's...

Andy Greenberg

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