Crypto exchange Bitmart gained an injunction towards the alleged hackers behind a July assault on the Bitcoin SV blockchain. The Bitcoin SV blockchain was attacked in July, enabling hackers to “double-spend” cash. Bitmart has frozen addresses allegedly linked to the assault.
Many prominent exchanges stopped taking note of Bitcoin SV the moment they delisted the cryptocurrency. Bitmart, an international exchange registered within the Cayman Islands with places of work in New York and throughout Asia, didn’t. The exchange’s owner has been preventing a court docket battle to forestall the transfer of BSV allegedly stolen in a July 9 hack.
A U.S. District Court decide has granted a preliminary injunction to Bitmart proprietor, GBM International Holding Co. Ltd., stopping the alleged hackers—whose names haven’t been publicly launched (and are redacted from the court documents)—from shifting the BSV.
The movement was granted by Choose Alison J. Nathan after the defendants failed to respond.
