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Strange, a month ago he tweets about his server being compromised: https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1593227756841578496 Go figure
Loss of his bitcoin is not yet confirmed. It's possible that only his twitter account got hacked, and the hacker is having some fun with it. Beyond being a bitcoin core dev [1], Luke-Jr is also the author of an independent node and wallet implementation known as Bitcoin Knots [2]. [1] https://github.com/luke-jr [2] https://bitcoinknots.org/
[1] - https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1609655629903265795
Would be interesting to know how his BTC were stolen. Because he is a BTC core developer, I believe he followed the best practices, like not writing down his password. So infection or keylogger?
I am not a security person, but I can't help but wonder where the advice of not writing things down comes from? I think my wife's password book on her desk is a lot more safe than most computer experts.
Dude has 8 kids and someone is claiming it was around 200 BTC. That's ~$3.3M down the tubes. Ouch.
As soon as trouble comes to paradise, they wonder why traditional institutions they dissed all along is not dropping everything and take up their case (FBI in this case).
Ok, but please don't post repetitive flamewar comments to HN—this kind of thing has been posted a thousand times by now; the only value left in it is indignation, which is the opposite of the curiosity we want here. Perhaps you don't owe paradise better, but you do owe this community better if you're participating in it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Why make it so complex? Just do a title search online and you’ll get access to their address if they own a home.
Of course its obvious there's many ways to get someone's address. The point is that companies put vast effort into digital security but in many cases it's easily compromised by going to the home of the person that is the hacking target.
Especially if your parents accidentally left you home alone..
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Say your wife is a well known Bitcoin billionaire. And your wife bought something from my eBay store. Now I have your home address. And if I am a ruthless character then I quietly break into your house one day with th3e objective of leaving no sign I was ever there. Search for written down passwords, take a photo, leave.
Okay, so assuming you get past this theoretical billionaire's physical security (at a minimum gated fences and an alarm system; if they're actually a billionaire, probably 24/7 armed private security as well) and into their mansion, how long do you think it would take you to search their 7 bedroom 10000 square foot mansion for these written down passwords which you have no information as to whether they even exist?
Strange, a month ago he tweets about his server being compromised: https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1593227756841578496 Go figure
Supreme negligence on his part. He knows his server was accessed, but he didn't transfer the coins to a new address.
Loss of his bitcoin is not yet confirmed. It's possible that only his twitter account got hacked, and the hacker is having some fun with it. Beyond being a bitcoin core dev [1], Luke-Jr is also the author of an independent node and wallet implementation known as Bitcoin Knots [2]. [1] https://github.com/luke-jr [2] https://bitcoinknots.org/
Peter Todd claims he has confirmation [1] [1] - https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1609655629903265795