>>9977259 (LB)
IF the objective of the attacker really was to steal bitcoin, then I will concede that I find the methods chosen to be extremely unsophisticated, in fact. The attacker received BTC valued at some $110k through her hack. But, as someone pointed out earlier, it would have been much more prospective for the attacker to short TSLA stock and then publish Elon Musk's (fake) obituary through both his and Tesla's Twatter accounts: "We are very sorry and deeply saddened to inform you that our beloved and visionary leader Elon Musk passed away last night in a terrible car accident".
The whole thing eerily reminds me of the European supercomputer hacks, where the attackers purportedly attempted to mine bitcoin with said supercomputers. Which is, to say the least, a very ill-advised proposition, because crypto mining at any meaningful scale requires lots of energy. Meanwhile, the energy consumption (as well as CPU cycles, memory usage, etc) of those extemely expensive supercomputer systems are subject to meticulous accounting. There is simply no way that any unauthorized crypto mining would have gone unnoticed for even the shortest period of time.
I suspect that the real objective was something entirely different, which is yet unknown to us.