Behind the largest $15 billion Crypto Assets seizure in history, 200,000 Bitcoin Addresses may be leaked! The named Wallet responded.In December 2020, approximately 120,000 Bitcoins were transferred on-chain in a large-scale move from a batch of wallet addresses that had been dormant for a long time and had almost no transaction records. With the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announcing in 2025 the seizure of Bitcoin worth $15 billion from the Southeast Asian telecom fraud empire BCH group, the two events seem to be connected. But the question is, how was it done?
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Generate private keys using pseudo-random numbers, DOJ brute-force enumerates to crack the Wallet.
According to the investigation report, this batch of funds actually belongs to the Lubian mining pool, which is closely related to the BCH group. The report indicates that when the Lubian wallet generated its private key, it used a flawed pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), resulting in the generated private key not being truly.
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