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Police seize record 50,000 Bitcoin from now-defunct piracy site

ID: 87aeb9e3-76f7-5222-b67d-7dbd0703d7a1

STIX ID: report--87aeb9e3-76f7-5222-b67d-7dbd0703d7a1

Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Date Published: 2024-01-31

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Bill Toulas

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German authorities in Saxony, supported by the FBI and other agencies, provisionally secured nearly 50,000 Bitcoin from a suspected Movie2k.to operator via voluntary transfer to the BKA—the largest Bitcoin seizure in Germany—linked to profits from the piracy platform active until 2013; the final decision on fund utilization is pending, and related ties to other piracy operations were noted.

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