Finnish authorities traced Monero transactions tied to Vastaamo hack

[Oshosondy]

I am surprised to see this today, that a monero transaction in connection with the criminal trial of Julius Aleksanteri Kivimäki and the Vastaamo hack was traced.

Read the news from https://cointelegraph.com/news/finnish-authorities-traced-monero-vastaamo-hack

I am thinking this is not about monero but that users mistake or lack of knowledge to make a transaction like that untraceable can be made.

What do you think?

[Captain Corporate]

Well the news says that they are not sharing any more further information regarding their on-chain deduction on how they figured it out. However, what we have as information is that he was paid in bitcoin, sent to a wallet, sent to some kyc-less exchange, bought monero there, moved to binance, and to bank accounts. So the question there is that how did he used monero, and still got tracked, he must be not hiding his wallet or anything, he must be doing nothing to save it, maybe using similar wallet address's multiple times. That seems like the only logical way that this would actually work, otherwise it wouldn't really make sense.

[Stay see]

It is indeed how you use monero that will make you traceable or not, using governement agencies or similar

As far as I know Monero is not 100% uncrackable if they really are out to get you. It simply requires, well, a governement wanting to go after you.

It seems Monero upgrades are in the works and then it will be a lot better in that sense