US probes how $372 million vanished in hack hours after FTX bankruptcy

By Ava Benny-Morrison | Bloomberg

Federal prosecutors are investigating an alleged cybercrime that drained more than $370 million out of FTX just hours after the cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy last month.

The Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into the stolen assets that is separate from the fraud case against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, according to a person familiar with the case. US authorities have managed to freeze some of the stolen funds, the person confirmed. However the frozen assets only represent a fraction of the entire loot.

It is unclear whether the infiltration was an inside job, as Bankman-Fried suggested in interviews before his arrest, or

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