From AlphaBay, those hacked Bitcoins were sent to one crypto exchange, then another. The second exchange account was opened by Lichtenstein, using his real name. He’d even sent in a selfie to verify his identity. The only person who’d know the connection between Lichtenstein and the hacked funds would be the person running AlphaBay, who went only by “Alpha02.” Unfortunately for the thieves, AlphaBay was already the target of a separate investigation. Police from several countries thought they’d figured out that Alpha02 was a twenty-five-year-old Canadian named Alexandre Cazes, who’d moved to
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