It’s worth noting that the hack does require physical access to the wallet — albeit only about fifteen minutes worth. And by “physical access” we mean that the hack leaves the device ...

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Billions worth of Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 should be returned to the exchange, the Feds wrote in a filing.

In the following month, a bug in the CEO’s new wallet software led to 2,609 BTC being sent to an unspendable null key. In 2013, a hacker once again obtained a copy of Mt. Gox’s wallet.dat file and ...

[Scott Driscoll] sent us a link to his Bitcoin explanation a couple of weeks ago. We glanced at it but moved on rather quickly. It’s been popping up here and there and we finally gave it the ...

Ilya Lichtenstein pleaded guilty last year to hacking into the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016 and stealing almost 20,000 bitcoin ... serial entrepreneur, software investor and rapper".

Elon Musk has turned the U.S. Treasury Department’s cybersecurity disaster into his latest roast material. Following news ...

A US court approved returning $9 billion in bitcoin to Bitfinex, stolen during the 2016 hack, via restitution agreements. Bitfinex plans to use 80% of recovered funds to repurchase and burn UNUS SED ...

It was a Bitcoin hack so big and complex that the laptop used to trace and recover the stolen coins will soon be on display at the Smithsonian. There was a recovery effort so grand it yielded 80% ...