A huge misconception that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin provide total anonymity.
This feels like quite big news though. As far as I can remember I’ve not heard yet about criminals being traced via Monero (a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency) transactions.
@j_opdenakker To say that Monero has been compromised here is entirely untrue. In previous reporting on TheRecord and KrebsOnSecurity back in November 2022 they say the hacker was identified by including a copy of his home folder in the data leak. I think all they've done here is match up the withdrawn XMR amount from one account to a deposit of the same amount on another but they'd have both accounts anyway since Julius's arrest.
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