In the night of August 3, the unknown for 15 minutes withdrew all the money from bitcoin-wallets tied to WannaCry. Seven transactions worth $ 142,000 recorded by Quartz's bot.
7.34128314 BTC ($20,055.52 USD) has just been withdrawn from a bitcoin wallet tied to #wcry ransomware.
As Quartz suggests, the money is likely to pass through a chain of other bitcoin-wallet to hide the final recipient. This is the first withdrawal of funds from the wallets of ransomware. The latest wallet deposit with amount $606 occurred on 24 July.
Recall, virus WannaCry started to massively block the Windows-based computers worldwide on May 12. The data on the hard disk has encrypted, and required to transfer the ransom to bitcoin wallets. The damage from the attack was estimated at one billion dollars.+
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