Bitcoin: $64m in cryptocurrency stolen in 'sophisticated' hack, exchange says(theguardian.com)

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Bitcoin: $64m in cryptocurrency stolen in 'sophisticated' hack, exchange says

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/07/bitcoin-64m-cryptocurrency-stolen-hack-attack-marketplace-nicehash-passwords

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086421357909764hace 9 años

People need to stop with the 'sophisticated attack" shenanigans. No one is going to say 'un-sophisticated attack", when the reality of it is, it usually boils down to negligence. My bet is on an insider.

Interesting in this case is that the CTO / Co-Founder's son was previously arrested for creating the "Mariposa" bot net and money laundering.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/matjaz-skorjanc/ http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25506016

659087hace 9 años

"Sophisticated hack" in crypto translates roughly to "we decided our customers' money was better off in our bank accounts than theirs".

086421357909764hace 9 años

Exactly.. the "we had hot wallets for all our currency" excuse would have worked 6 years ago, not so much today.

djroombahace 9 años

Yikes. This is the reason Im fearful of bitcoin.

astrodusthace 9 años

Rackets like this happen all the time. What makes Bitcoin different is often a lack of recourse.

sam111hace 9 años

This person did AMA about Crypto! I think you should ask and refer it.

https://us.teamblind.com/article/i-manage-a-multi-million-cr...