alt Hacker NewsDOJ press release: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/google-employee-charged...
Indictment: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1442621/dl
Apparently the suspect is a staff engineer at Google with a 12-year tenure. He presumably had plenty of money arising from his employer and rank; why risk both his job and a felony conviction over a measly $1.2 million?
Also, let's not turn this into a "how to" or otherwise endorse insider trading or breach of our respective duties...
Yes thank you, the indictment confirms it, Michael used an old account instead of a virgin address. Everyone has unlimited virgin addresses so just use those and dont fund them with your KYC’d accounts. Only buy Monero with your KYC’d accounts, for any purpose. Fund virgin polygon/ethereum addresses with the Monero over Tor. Leading Monero wallets such as Featherwallet already run its own Tor connectivity
This is decade old base level OPSEC that people are just neglecting
basic privacy beforehand - and after - would so happen to send state actors to a deadend, whether its a government you respect or one you don’t it doesn’t make a difference
Thats not a how to, thats hygiene
Did Michael - an Italian citizen living in Switzerland - fly to New York himself to deal with this or was he extradited?