Chainalysis itself was hit by a cybersecurity incident, and now it’s bringing in “world-class third-party experts” to conduct a security review. It sounds like dark comedy—the company’s job is to provide on-chain forensics for exchanges and law enforcement, and now its own forensic tools have become an attack surface. Go back two days: in the $6.3 billion Binance theft, the FBI and Secret Service both got involved in tracing the assets. Binance said about $3 billion had been frozen, with Tether and Circle helping lock up the stablecoins. In this law-enforcement chain, intelligence firms like Chainalysis are the ones mapping the flow of funds. I’ve been watching this figure for a while: in a $6.3 billion case, the freezing was done by issuers and exchanges, while the forensics were handled by an outside company. So when the auditors themselves are being audited, can exchange risk teams still accept the address labels they’re given at face value? $BTC $ETH