500 000 $ Geek Cyberheist [crime]

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AdrianChen – yesterday, a man woke up to find out that nearly $ 500,000 in the value of virtual cash napíchal from your own computer as a thief. The first of the great robbery Bitcoin is on us!

If you have spent time in nerdier parts of the Internet in the last few months, you know, that is, the trends of the Bitcoin hyper virtual currency, championed by geek warriors, hackers, and drug dealers. Completely decentralized, open-source and almost anonymous, essentially as a function of the Bitcoin digital money. Compared to users can store their wallet in the bitcoins file on your computer, in the Bank or Paypal account. Unfortunately, such as money, Bitcoins are gone forever, theft, or computer are on is destroyed.

Rolling high fanatic, who goes by the Allinvain claims that on Monday afternoon, someone blew us 25 000 Bitcoins from his wallet and put into another anonymous account. At the current exchange rate of $ 6.72 for Bitcoin is $ 467,500. (Although the exchange rate reaches as high as ~ 29 dollars in the last few days.)

"I feel I will kill, and now," said Allinvain wrote the Bitcoin Forum after the discovery of the theft. He was an early adopter of the Bitcoin in 2010 and held its currency from when it was worth just pennies. "I remember that track the price like a hawk," he writes. His plan was to eventually use its cash and profit to the opening of the Bitcoin business. "Needless to say, I feel like I've lost faith in the Bitcion," he wrote.

Allinvain says that he noticed was hacked some special activities with his computer, which suggests that. Although he could not rule out the possibility that someone physically stole his wallet Bitcoin file from your computer.

Geeks everywhere, for theft, debating whether it was possible to Bitcoin security or stupidity on the part of Allinvain. Another user of the Forum, said that he was hit by a hacker, who was his Bitcoins to the same account that was used to empty the Allinvain 's, which has led to speculation that a serial thief is on the loose. Bitcoin

"It is one thing, bitcoins. There is no FDIC or SIPC tracking back, "wrote commenter Hacker News. "It's the Wild West with train robberies and heists of all coach."

What made the theft of more dramatic, because the Bitcoin transactions in the public record all protocol, anyone can watch stolen from a hiding place in real time, that's around to different sloshed anonymous accounts, probably in an attempt to Bitcoin Wash is.

It is the only possible fraud in the Allinvain. Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik says that "it is literally impossible to determine whether a post is B.S."– because of the Bitcoin is anonymous, someone may argue that own any of the account and there is no real way to prove it. But he adds: "it is true, as well as the actual wallet in your pocket, can be stolen bitcoin wallet."

Even if a hacker can attack your wallet with a Trojan horse. Also, your wallet will last almost 500 000 dollars. If for some reason, the half a million dollars from Bitcoins, it is stored in the computer locked in a large vault, twenty feet below the ground, you disconnect from the Internet, safe from the mysterious Bitcoin cat-burgler. Maybe in the Bank?

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