Julius Aleksanteri Kivimäki, the suspect believed to be behind an attack against one of Finland's largest psychotherapy clinics, Vastaamo, was allegedly identified by tracing what has been believed to be untraceable Monero transactions.
Disinformation alert. This person was dumb enough to have Bitcoin trade it for Monero and then trade it back to Bitcoin and send it to a centralized exchange. Monero itself was not traced. The amounts into and out of Bitcoin were traced, and then the person was dumb enough to send it to a centralized exchange to cash out. Stupid fuck.
Perhaps, you never know.
it's a little hard to believe that someone with technical skills would fail like that.
is it also possible this event was done like that so they could falsely claim Monero was traced? yes.
Later in the future I expect several fabricated events to make Monero look real bad in headlines, not just "traced"