[...] in 2016, after moving to China and announcing that Cryptsy was in receivership, Vernon hacked into Cryptsy servers from a remote location, stole Cryptsy’s database containing customers’ funds and destroyed the database to conceal his illegal activity. Vernon remains in hiding. Cryptsy closed in 2016.

Silver told CoinDesk that he will continue to track the 11,325 bitcoins that “went missing and which remains untouched in private wallets.”