Tracking a Bitcoin Thief

An anonymous reader writes A small group of researchers were able to publish an investigative report on the hacking of a popular Bitcoin exchange earlier this year by the name of CryptoRush.in. Close to a million dollars stolen in crypto currency lead the group to discover evidence, track down the attacker and put together a timeline of what exactly happened. A captivating read for a community desensitized by thefts, hackings and lack of reporting. With pictures, and logs to prove it all.

Comments

Re:Pictures and Logs Prove What Exactly?

[PRMan]

The Blockchain can't be faked. Everyone has a copy.

Re:Amateur hour

[Lord_Jeremy]

Note that basically the only hacking technique he used was running a couple websites with malicious code that stole user's email and passwords. Then trying those credentials at lots of other sites looking for stuff to take. In particular, he discovered that the founder/administrator of CryptoRush used the same password for everything and he was able to download server backups that contained the necessary information (private keys?) to access the exchange wallets. So basically everyone involved was participating in amateur hour.

lead != led

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry if I misunderstood and the crypto currency is actually made out of lead....