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Bitcoin: $64m in cryptocurrency stolen in 'sophisticated' hack, exchange says

theguardian.com

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Re: Bitcoin: $64m in cryptocurrency stolen in 'sophisticated' hack, exchange says

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People need to stop with the 'sophisticated attack" shenanigans. No one is going to say 'un-sophisticated attack", when the reality of it is, it usually boils down to negligence. My bet is on an insider.

Interesting in this case is that the CTO / Co-Founder's son was previously arrested for creating the "Mariposa" bot net and money laundering.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/matjaz-skorjanc/ http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25506016

Re: Bitcoin: $64m in cryptocurrency stolen in 'sophisticated' hack, exchange says

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"Sophisticated hack" in crypto translates roughly to "we decided our customers' money was better off in our bank accounts than theirs".

Exactly.. the "we had hot wallets for all our currency" excuse would have worked 6 years ago, not so much today.