Details of the Bitmain BTC theft: Hackers stole 617 BTC and moved them to Bittrex, significantly raising the price of MANA

According to Xiaocong News, Bitmain recently filed a lawsuit, claiming that a hacker with the alias "John Doe" attacked its Binance account and 617 bitcoins were stolen, which was worth about 5.5 million US dollars at the time. It is reported that the stolen cryptocurrency was not converted into US dollars, but was transferred to Bittrex. The hacker used this platform to significantly increase the price of the altcoin MANA. It is not clear whether this is an attempt to launder money or more. In addition, for unknown reasons, the hacker did not completely empty Bitmain's Binance account, but left more than 200 bitcoins. According to previous news, Bitmain filed a lawsuit against an unknown hacker in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on November 7. According to the lawsuit, the hacker stole bitcoins from a digital currency trading account of Bitmain. (livebitcoinnews)