FTX insiders suspected of withdrawing $ 1 billion of user assets from the exchange

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Blockchain security analyst Hacken, after studying FTX's transactions, concluded that behind the recent asset theft isA person who has insider information.

On the morning of Monday, November 14, more than $1 billion of users' assets disappeared from the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, sources who previously held responsible positions on the trading platform told Reuters.According to them, there was a shortage of assets
revealed on November 13 in reports shared by FTX management with other senior executives.

Blockchain analyst Hacken conducted his own investigation and came to the assertion: the money was stolen from inside the trading platform.

"We found an unknown wallet that received about $40 million from different FTX and FTX wallets. US on the TRON network.Interestingly, one of the FTX wallets from which the funds were transferred did not have TRX to pay gas fees at the timeIt appears that an attacker/insider tried to transfer $46.7 million from this FTX hot wallet to an unknown newly created address on the Tron network.But the transaction failed due to the lack of TRX for gas fees.Therefore, the thief decided to withdraw 499 TRX from his wallet on the Kraken exchange."

According to the analyst, the Kraken trading platform reported that it had identified an attacker who was standingfor the theft of assets of FTX exchange users.

Last week, the Reuters news agency said that the head of FTX secretly transferred $4 billion to Alameda Research on the eve of the crisis.