A person accused of having stolen a large quantity of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency a few years ago has been෴ arrested in🤪 connection with the hacking of a Tumakuru-based cryptocurrency exchange website, police said.
Srikrishna alias Sriki was arrested late on Monday night. He is accused of stealing Bitcoin worth Rs one c🐎rore in 2017.
As cases pertaining to Bitcoin theft increased, the Karnataka government set𓄧 uᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚp a Special Investigation Team to probe it.
Sriki was first arrested in November 2020 for alleged hacking the state government’s websites and stealing money from there. He is alleg♈ed to have converted the money into cr💎yptocurrency.
