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There is billions of dollars of value in BTC sitting in wallets as an open bounty for anyone who can hack private keys.

So which of the following is most likely:

- the government has a tool that can break private key encryption and used it to confiscate a hacker groups funds

OR

- whoever controls the groups wallet transferred it out and is on the run

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Someone got a little sloppy on their payment processing server (also seized) or with maintaining separate wallets and control of that server allowed sending of payments to an account specified by whoever was in control - likely since the server was for paying affiliates.

Right, which has nothing to do with blockchain security itself, and more to do with implementation of private keys.

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