CipherTrace says they lost the trail on the twitter hackers when they threw the btc they scammed into mixers.
On the other hand, the Feds arrested a kid in Florida, so my question is... how did they find him?
On the other hand, the Feds arrested a kid in Florida, so my question is... how did they find him?
If I had to guess, the attack was done by a group of people and they split the funds up. Some of them were smarter than others.
It's also possible that the people who have been arrested are simply people who have received stolen goods (knowingly or unknownly). Perhaps they traded something else of value for the Bitcoin and didn't know how dirty it was.
Then bragged about it and went for more accounts. His friends left him when he went for the high profile accounts. I think it was organized on discord.