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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by VonBlue on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:57PM (#24013199)
Hold on... how could they have de-anonymized the blockchain transactions? That seems.. false
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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by tomc1985 on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:59PM (#24013221)
Why not? People link their wallets to other wallets and financial services with reporting requirements all the time. Bitcoin isn't anonymous
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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by Rebelgecko on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:00PM (#24013239)
All transactions are public on the Bitcoin blockchain. I haven't followed the wallets, but it's possible that they tried to cash out on an exchange and got caught. Or they were initially found via other means and a search of their computers found the corresponding wallet.dat files.
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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by banana_giraffe on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:48PM (#24013836)
Yeah, they used Coinbase, and Coinbase is of course willing to respond to warrants.
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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by techntoke on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:16PM (#24013431)
Which would likely be encrypted
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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by Aaronstotle on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:08PM (#24013331)
Bitcoin is a public blockchain, there are various blockchain analytic firms such as Elliptic/Chainalysis that offer bitcoin tracing services.

Bitcoin is not private nor anonymous, the rise of blockchain surveillance is why privacy coins like Monero are gaining in popularity.

That being said, I'm sure it wasn't solely BTC transactions, these guys seemed to have very poor op-sec for performing such a big hack.

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by cyral on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:21PM (#24013492)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/press-release/file/1300126...

It’s detailed here, very interesting read

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by ChrisLomont on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:56PM (#24014666)
It’s routinely done by researchers.

Here’s a lot of papers on it.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,15&q=bitco...

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