Alameda Lost Nearly $200M to Phishing Attacks, Ex-Engineer Says
Lax security practices seemed to be a feature of the former crypto trading titan.
Lax security practices seemed to be a feature of the former crypto trading titan.
Ellison previously testified that Alameda used FTX customer funds to make investments and repay its debts.
He had hoped to continue Alameda Research as an investment firm and infrastructure developer, but claimed in the posts that Alameda wouldn’t actively trade.
“I sent balance sheets at the direction of Sam [Bankman-Fried] that made Alameda’s balances look less risky to investors,” she said.
The former Alameda CEO will “tell you about how she and the defendant stole money customers entrusted to FTX,” a prosecutor said. Defense’s cross-examination may get personal.
Alameda owed FTX $11 billion it didn’t have.
“We’re not bulletproof this year,” Sam Bankman-Fried said in mid-2022, according to the witness.
Security and risk checks were “poor” at the company, but the implosion of the trading firm came as a surprise to insiders, the former employee said.
An ex-Alameda employee claims a trader at the firm punched in a wrong decimal which led to bitcoin’s 87% drop on Binance.US in 2021.
An Alameda balance sheet revealed just how fraught FTX’s situation was.