600 Stolen Bitcoin Miners From Icelandic Heist Suspected To Be In China
Cointelegraph
Published May 07, 2018 05:51AM ET
Updated May 07, 2018 07:03AM ET
600 Stolen Bitcoin Miners From Icelandic Heist Suspected To Be In China
The missing machines from an unsolved Bitcoin (BTC) mining hardware theft in Iceland earlier this year may be in China, Icelandic media outlet RUV reported May 5. Icelandic police are reported to have now issued an enquiry to Chinese authorities, after news broke in late April that 600 devices used to mine BTC had been seized in the northern city of Tianjin.
The number of confiscated machines exactly matches that of the missing hardware that was stolen in three burglaries at data centers in Iceland last December and January. Icelandic police were soon able to identify and arrest two suspects in February. One of them now faces an international arrest warrant, after he escaped from an Icelandic prison and fled to Sweden in mid April.
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