All this cyber attack story is fake coordinated shit and I don't trust anything I hear from government sources and mainstream media anymore.
Don't trust this and any other future ''Cyber Attacks'' you hear on news, and investigate for yourself.
Even if its just a narrative they spin in order to make others doubt the security model of Bitcoin. If somebody manages to investigate the story properly it weakens the narrative of governments and mainstream media dramatically!
Tinfoil mod activated!The evil narrative of the evil
gubbermint and the evil mainstream media!
What narrative? They didn't tell one thing, they said they will not reveal anything, where is the narrative when you're not saying a word? The only narrative is here where some users without even knowing a single detail other than the address in question are coming with different scenarios and are rising conspiracy theories after theories.
But of course, the government is full of idiots, the hackers are idiots, the only the knowledge is all owned by some random users who most dismiss this not because they have a real motive about but for the simple fact that they can't understand! But sure, government and the FBI are idiots who don't know a thing about bitcoin, that's why they can get their hands on thousands after thousands of coins, that's how they can bring down dark market websites, that's how they find vulnerabilities in tor, because they are idiots.
It is also possible, the government is running a mixing service, and recovered the coin when the hacking group tried to launder the stolen coin via mixer.
It might be the case, as they did run some miners after they have seized the servers in the past and maybe even now they are running a few they've built themselves but the whole thing doesn't look like somebody trying to mix coins, I doubt anyone would try to mix large sums at once and through a single service, when you deal with illegal stuff you don't trust anyone. The whole thing is a bit puzzling, especially the private key stuff, and at first glance, the private server with a hot wallet seems to be the most plausible explanation but why would they choose that way of doing things, no idea.