Whoever the hacker was, all they did was exercise a contract according to its terms. I know people disagree and that this conversation has been had innumerous times by now, but I'm still going to state the obvious: they did nothing ~~wrong~~ illegal. Don't do contracts as self-executing code and then bitch and moan about intents and spirits when things don't go how you envisioned.<p>The actual crime featured in the article is an exchange employee leaking transaction details of one their customers.<p>I also wonder how we could possibly take something out of Chainalysis' black box as anything but a silly gag. It's supposed to be valid because they swear by it?
Well no. Maybe $100 million usd, except that it's almost all untouchable, either abandoned at an exchange or tainted on a public ledger.<p>The culprit possibly extracted up to 11 million, but all the rest of the crypto stash is toxic. And now he's gonna have to talk to some nice men with badges, if someone gets interested in a token crypto criminal takedown.