Xi'an bitcoin stolen
some malware also make great use of the parallel computing power of graphics cards. In August 2011, botnet of bitcoin mining was discovered, and Mac OS X infected by Trojan horse was also discovered to mine bitcoin.
on June 19, 2011, security vulnerability of mt.gox (Magic: abbreviation of the gathering online exchange) bitcoin trading center caused the price of 1 bitcoin to drop to 1 cent (although other transactions were not affected). The reason is that a hacker stole the user's mtgox certificate from the computer infected with the Trojan horse, so he transferred bitcoin to his own account and sold it, resulting in a large number of "ask" requests at that price. A few minutes later, mtgox shut down and cancelled the abnormal transactions in the hacking incident, making the price of bitcoin rebound back to $15. In the end, the bitcoin exchange rate went back to what it was before the crash. Accounts equivalent to more than $8750000 were affected
in July 2011, the operator of bitomat, the world's third largest bitcoin trading center, announced the loss of access rights to the wallet.dat file that records 17000 bitcoins (about 220000 US dollars). At the same time, announced the decision to sell services to make up for the loss of users
in August 2011, mybitcoin, one of the processing centers of common bitcoin transactions, announced that it had been attacked by hackers and shut down. Involving 49% of customers' deposits, more than 78000 bitcoins (then equivalent to about $800000) are missing
in early August 2012, bitconica was sued in the San Francisco court for damages of about $460000. In 2012, bitconica was attacked twice by hackers, accused of ignoring the security of customers' funds and forging withdrawal applications
in late August 2012, bitcoin savings and trust was shut down by its owner, leaving about US $5.6 million in debt. At the same time, he was accused of operating the Ponzi scheme. In September 2012, the securities and Exchange Commission began to investigate the case
in September 2012, bitfloor trading center was also hacked, and 24000 bitcoins (about US $250000) were stolen. Bitfloor was suspended. Bitfloor resumed operations in the same month, and its founder said he had reported the theft to the FBI and that he was planning to compensate the victims, but the compensation schele was unclear
in June 2011, a hacker transferred 25000 bitcoins into his account, which is equivalent to 500000 US dollars. The whole transaction could not be traced. Although the owner of bitcoin announced the theft on the Internet, it was useless. The hacker became the first thief of bitcoin
in 2012, 46703 bitcoin worth US $228845 was stolen e to the disclosure of the super management password of the server of the website hosting provider linode. More than 43000 stolen bitcoins belong to bitcoinica, a bitcoin trading platform. Another 3094 bitcoins are owned by Marek palatinus, a Czech programmer. Gavin Andersen, the chief bitcoin programmer, also lost his five bitcoins.
learned from the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau's opening branch recently that the "3. 30" network hacker theft virtual currency case was broken down nearly half a year, and 3 suspect suspects were all arrested. The initial investigation found that the gang involved in the case reached 600 million yuan. p>
on March 30, 2018, the economic development branch of Xi'an Public Security Bureau received an alarm from the victim Zhang, claiming that his personal computer was suspected to have been illegally intruded, and a large number of virtual currencies such as bitcoin and Ethereum were looted, with a market value of over 100 million yuan. The Municipal Public Security Bureau quickly set up a special group to carry out the detection work P>
has been examined by the 3 suspects as hacker. Many illegal gains have been obtained through illegal invasion, control of company's enterprise and personal network system, and the amount of suspect involved has reached 600 million yuan. At present, the case is still under further investigation
bitcoin is very risky. Although bitcoin can be used for real commodity transactions, there are still many restrictions, so its use value is limited
moreover, bitcoin has certain political and legal risks. If bitcoin is prohibited by law in the future, the money you invest in bitcoin may be wasted
in addition, the security of the platform is also very poor, and there are great risks in the storage and trading of bitcoin. After all, bitcoin only depends on source code to store, so once stolen, it is basically irreparable. Many trading platforms have been attacked by hackers and lost a lot of bitcoin
the quantity of bitcoin is also limited, and it is vulnerable to price fluctuations. Its highly volatile exchange rate just shows its instability. After all, it lacks a strong financial system to support it.
Icelandic authorities say a mastermind suspected of stealing $3 million worth of bitcoin mining equipment has escaped from an Icelandic prison
it is reported that the suspect, named Hindley sol Stefansson, fled through the window of Songen prison in rural areas of southern Iceland in the early morning of the 17th. He was transferred to the "open" prison by the police 10 days ago. There are almost no defenses, no walls, the lowest level of security, and prisoners can make phone calls and surf the Internet
According to the report, the fugitive was arrested on February 2 on suspicion of stealing computers, together with 10 other people. At that time, Icelandic police said that the stolen computers were worth about 200 million kronor (about US $2 million). The stolen computer was specially programmed to mine bitcoin. So far, the police have not found the whereabouts of these computers. The amount of money involved is unprecedented in Icelandic criminal cases
"he has an accomplice," said gonnar Schramm, head of Icelandic police. "We are sure."
The police have asked Sweden and other European countries to help with the arrest, the National Broadcasting Authority of Iceland reporteda Swedish police spokesman said that the arrest has not yet been carried out, and the Icelandic counterparts have informed the situation and issued an international arrest warrant
in February, Icelandic police arrested 11 people including Stefansson, accusing them of stealing about 600 computers used to mine the encrypted electronic currency "bitcoin" from December last year to January this year. The total value of these computers is about 200 million kronor (about US $2 million), a record amount of criminal cases in Iceland. Icelandic media called it "bitcoin robbery"
Before Stefansson escaped from prison, 22 people were arrested, but the stolen computer was still missinganother platform closed down e to hacker intrusion. Is bitcoin still in spring< Bitcoin (BTC): originally proposed by Nakamoto, it belongs to a kind of digital currency. It is based on a specific algorithm and generated through a large number of calculations. Therefore, the issuance of bitcoin is not manipulated by any government, bank, organization or indivial. The total number of bitcoins is very limited. In the past four years, there were only less than 10.5 million, and in the future, the total number of bitcoins will always be limited to 21 million
Hot Wallet: it can be connected to the Internet, has strong circulation, can be used for daily consumption, and is vulnerable to hackers
cold Wallet: it won't connect to the Internet and has poor circulation, but it is not easy to be attacked by hackers
gatecain explained in an official article that the server intrusion occurred between May 9 and May 12. On the night of May 9, the service was interrupted e to the restart of a server. Associated with the time node, I strongly feel that the hacker intrusion event has an indispensable relationship with this service interruption
on the evening of May 13, gatecoin detected some suspicious transactions, so it immediately suspended the service for investigation to prevent more unauthorized access to Eth and BTC hot wallets<
loss
the hacking incident caused huge losses to gatecoin, with 185000 Ethernet coins and 250 bitcoins, with a total value of US $2 million, accounting for 15% of gatecoin's total digital assets
the security company investigated and found the hackers' Ethernet and bitcoin addresses, and gatecoin is raising funds to make up for the losses
Wright coin, Ruitai coin, doggy coin, Ethereum, bitstock and other digital currencies are also excellent.