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Following on from an earlier story about the Canadian Crypto exchange whose owner died under suspicious circumstances with the keys to $137m of customers' assets, Business Insider Australia reports that some progress has been made[*] Spoiler alert: the funds are all gone.
The case has sparked numerous theories, including that he faked his own death and ran off with the cash.
However, court-appointed auditor Ernst & Young was able to crack Cotten's laptop. What they found, according to an EY report dated March 1, the accounts had been emptied in April 2018, eight months before his death.[*]
[* Ed.'s Update/Correction -- FP]
[...] A court-appointed auditor, Ernst & Young, has secured Cotten’s laptop, home computer, USB keys and home computer. Using public blockchain records, it determined the digital wallets thought to contain millions were emptied in April, eight months before his death [...]
I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
(Score: 2) by hoeferbe on Thursday March 07 2019, @12:45PM (2 children)
The did not crack the laptop. Please see my previous comment [soylentnews.org] about it.
(Score: 2) by julian on Friday March 08 2019, @01:24AM (1 child)
Why are you formatting your posts this way?
(Score: 1) by hoeferbe on Friday March 08 2019, @01:03PM
I got in the habit of linking to the profile of the person to whom I am responding and linking to the parent post to which I am responding, back when there was no "Parent" button. Before then, a reader could not easily see the parent post if it was below their threshold. I wanted to provide a way in which they could.
I guess since there is a Parent button, now, I can stop. I just didn't consider it. 😊