Stolen 320 BTC from prosecutors' office returns, then vanishes again

The 320 BTC, worth approximately 40 billion won ($29 million), that went missing from the Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office last August was briefly returned to a prosecutor-managed wallet before being immediately transferred to a third-party address, Maeil Business Newspaper reported. The stolen funds were moved from an address believed to belong to the hacker back to the prosecutors' wallet, only to be sent to a new, unknown address moments later. The newspaper noted that this sequence of events "defies common sense," leading to speculation of an inside job or a staged incident. The possibility of money laundering is considered low, as there would be no logical reason to route the funds through the original victim's wallet for such a purpose, the report added. Hwang Seok-jin, a professor at Dongguk University's Graduate School of International Information Security, stated that "the most likely scenario is a recovery by the prosecutors themselves, though a voluntary return by the hacker cannot be ruled out."