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$500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-luck-with-that dept.

olsmeister writes "A Bitcoin user allegedly has had $500,000 worth of Bitcoins stolen from him. A hacker supposedly gained access to the user's home computer and managed to get the user's wallet.dat file, which contained the cryptographic keys that allowed him to drain the user's balance."

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  1. Re:Anonymous payments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bitcoins are not anonymous.

  2. So perfect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The guy's handle is 'allinvain'. You couldn't make this stuff up.

  3. Re:Brilliant... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What type of MORON keeps a balance of $500,000 in BTC?

    What type of MORON keeps a balance of more than $0 in BTC?

  4. I'd imagine reporting it to police went like... by Sneeze1066 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Victim - "I've had the my wallet stolen officer"
    Officer - "Okay can you describe the wallet to me?"
    Victim - "It was about 58KB and ended in .DAT"
    Officer - "Errrrr......so was it leather?"

    1. Re:I'd imagine reporting it to police went like... by PenquinCoder · · Score: 5, Funny

      Officer - Listen here meow, we don't have time to be playing these games...

  5. I had it even worse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I lost $750,000 in Beenz.

  6. Re:Who cares by gilleain · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe I give people too much credit...

    So long as that credit is not in Bitcoin, it's probably okay.

  7. Re:Who cares by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

    It has to do with the US dollar being backed by the US GNP and Bitcoin being backed by the equivalent of pink elephants.

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