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by Rebelgecko 2148 days ago
All transactions are public on the Bitcoin blockchain. I haven't followed the wallets, but it's possible that they tried to cash out on an exchange and got caught. Or they were initially found via other means and a search of their computers found the corresponding wallet.dat files.
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Yeah, they used Coinbase, and Coinbase is of course willing to respond to warrants.
Which would likely be encrypted