Interesting that in the UK the ransom was to the NHS (National Health Service). They’re moving for the first time in 3 years.......When the NHS is under its biggest strain ever due to COVID19?

Something in that or just my conspiracy ridden mind trying to add 2 + 2 to get 5?

I believe the address is tainted  already, it would be interesting to see how he/she cash out. I know most exchanges would not allow the person to cash out because the big exchanges in the space are now working with the security agencies, maybe he will use one of these Asian exchanges to cash out

I wonder if anything can be done about it... If major exchanges block the addresses and don't allow them to sell the money, I don't think it'll work. Obviously, these hackers know better than to show up on a reputable exchange, and I am sure they can find other ways to access the money. If more transactions are performed, though, I think at some point it might be possible to get to some people, but they might have no idea where the money came from... In this kind of case it really sucks that some addresses can't be forced to give the money away or frozen, but that's not gonna happen since such a mechanism can be easily exploited for dubious things.

Looks like he recieved a lot of money with this virus

Maybe the hacker is thinking that the victims already forgotten what happened and he is now on the move to cash out the money. The hacker can do a lot with it, a ransomware that were able to hack thousands up to a million dollar is not a joke amount.

Let's just hope that it cannot affect the market situation that much so we can enjoy a green color before the halving will occur and also let's just hope that the hacker will be penalize someday with their actions.

Sad reality because no matter how people do follow from address to address if these coins tend to be mixed up or any other means of mixing then tracing or tracking it down would be impossible.
Do really us believe that those coins wont move forever? Of course they would surely move out on a particular time when those hackers will need up some money and they're quite aware on how
things should be done for them not to be traced. *intelligent as always*

It is not a hard thing, you can write some code to het a notification of different address if tx happens. And the number of such watcher is not too low, there are legal investigator too.


There are a lot of ways to wash bitcoin apart from the mixing sites. Mixing site just make it easy.

Definitely, for an app that literally locks you out of your PC with every file on the line.

I'm pretty sure most victims didn't see it coming.