US seizes $23 million in crypto stolen via password manager breach

U.S. authorities traced and seized $23.6M of cryptocurrency tied to a January 2024 theft of roughly $150M from Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen, and a forfeiture complaint links the theft to attackers who extracted private keys by cracking password-manager vault data stolen in 2022 (consistent with the LastPass breaches). Investigators traced funds through multiple exchanges, several platforms froze or returned assets to authorities, and law enforcement asserts the same actors have been involved in other crypto thefts leveraging the stolen vault data.