Blockchain burglar steals $1.5 million in crypto under investor’s nose

A crypto investor claims $1.5 million of his stolen funds ended up in an account with a Manhattan-based cryptocurrency trade, and he desires to know the way.

In Could, company high quality knowledgeable Niall Leonard found his Bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies had been all of the sudden gone from his digital wallets, in response to a Manhattan Supreme Court docket submitting.

Leonard, an Irishman residing in Qatar, instantly employed British monetary investigation agency AnotherDay, which traced the funds to an account with Koreatown firm referred to as Paxful Holdings.

Paxful declined to launch the identification of the account holder with out a court docket order. Leonard desires a decide to drive Paxful to disclose who's holding the stolen funds.

The corporate is “working hand-in-hand with Niall Leonard’s group” and is “doing all the pieces in our energy to supply transparency” whereas appearing inside U.S. legislation, a Paxful spokesperson instructed The Submit.

“We’re awaiting subsequent steps and can work alongside legislation enforcement to make sure any wrongdoers are delivered to justice,” the spokesperson wrote in an e mail to The Submit.

Alonso and Leonard declined to remark.

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