Bitcoin isn't supposed to be entirely private. "Cracking Bitcoin" is as simple as following addresses through exchanges and tracking who spent what money when and through what service. Since it's a decentralized ledger, everyone has a copy. The lap dogs and their hopelessly incompetent strategists being deployed against Bitcoin are easy to spot if you simply understand the technology. Too many useful idiots are ignorant of this technology, causing them to easily fall for emotional bait and spread lies about it, causing uncertainty to mount. What could result from uncertainty or doubt being spread about a project or a currency at large? There's no reason to fall for the emotional bait they're deploying. The people were found through feds monitoring TOR exit nodes. Naval Intelligence created TOR. Our government knows about these things happening and they choose to ignore the majority at length. The real aim here is shelving Bitcoin as a competitor to Federal Reserve Notes. If someone simply understands that everyone who has Bitcoin can trace these transactions (and even people that don't own any... because people make tools to compile such lists), the whole frame being largely agreed upon by the Mockingbird Media will be entirely collapsed.