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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. Oh /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This thread was on Reddit 2 days ago. Here's the link: http://www.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/hzrcc/bitcoin_user_loses_25k_bitcoins_when_his_machine/

    To summarise:
      * it could've never been $500k, that's purely theoretical. In practise it would be worth far less.
      * "allinvain" is a true idiot. He was keeping the coins on his main computer which had a virus on it. He was browsing the web and IRCing with it. He found the trojan the night before, had seen that his payout address was changed to another and then to fix this he "changed it back" and went to sleep. He then "moved [his wallet] to a Ubuntu linux vmware install. On the same machine."
      * It's probably a hoax