Over his years in cyber crime, he'd become almost an obsession for some law enforcement folks, among them Keith Malasky, the former FBI agent we heard from in episode two, the guy who'd set himself up as Master Splinter to infiltrate the gangs

The investigators worked very hard to uncover these identities.

You're tracking these guys as they're changing their nicknames, and, you know, it takes a long time to kinda...

Looking through these chat logs or looking at different things that are gonna give you indication that this person is the same person that you've been looking at [gentle music]

In fact, the research Keith is referring to discussed more than one crypto wallet believed to be linked to Conti

So is he the first cyber crime billionaire? We're talking about very significant organizations here.

When you're talking about that type of money, that's big time