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I definitely think this is China shooting a shooting a warning shot across our bow. Would be sabre-rattling after yesterdays EO against china. "You have no idea how compromised you are. You're lucky we did not go after POTUS account."
Hours in, seems the vulnerability was not yet patched but simply blue-checks had posting rights pulled. Only non-verified accounts have been posting the wallet key for a while now (search new to find them).
I know it's easy to judge from afar but I can't believe they're leaving the site up during this.
Given how huge this hack is, and how little the BTC reward is going to be, I'm tempting to think this is either: - a test of a new hacking system - a demonstration to a big client - a first shot to threat some entity - a diversion while they get the real loot And that the BTC messages are just a way to justify it so it looks like a simple scam. Such a hack is worth way, WAY more than the few BTC it could bring.
Okay, this has me curious. Could someone describe the context/circumstance where you have a 'big client' to whom you illustrate capabilities by this kind of hack? This is a black market thing, right?
I don't doubt it, I'm just curious what this market is, and what it means to be a 'big client' in it, etc.
Given how huge this hack is, and how little the BTC reward is going to be, I'm tempting to think this is either: - a test of a new hacking system - a demonstration to a big client - a first shot to threat some entity - a diversion while they get the real loot And that the BTC messages are just a way to justify it so it looks like a simple scam. Such a hack is worth way, WAY more than the few BTC it could bring.
Given how huge this hack is, and how little the BTC reward is going to be, I'm tempting to think this is either: - a test of a new hacking system - a demonstration to a big client - a first shot to threat some entity - a diversion while they get the real loot And that the BTC messages are just a way to justify it so it looks like a simple scam. Such a hack is worth way, WAY more than the few BTC it could bring.
The number of unconfirmed transactions has catapulted from ~9k to about ~50k right now, which means there's large amount of activity.
It will take a while for the dust to settle.
You can watch them here https://www.blockchain.com/btc/unconfirmed-transactions
chart https://www.blockchain.com/charts/mempool-count
A better graph of the current transactions sitting unconfirmed: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h
Note: I'm not saying that these are all from the hack, I'm saying that the activity on the Bitcoin blockchain has significantly spiked, and the hack was still ongoing at the time of writing this.
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> how little the BTC reward is going to be So far, the address has received the equivalent of over 50,000 USD.
Again, nothing. Given the accounts that were hacked, they could easily have moved markets and had pre-placed short bets that would have netted them potentially hundreds of millions.
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Given how huge this hack is, and how little the BTC reward is going to be, I'm tempting to think this is either: - a test of a new hacking system - a demonstration to a big client - a first shot to threat some entity - a diversion while they get the real loot And that the BTC messages are just a way to justify it so it looks like a simple scam. Such a hack is worth way, WAY more than the few BTC it could bring.
>a demonstration to a big client Okay, this has me curious. Could someone describe the context/circumstance where you have a 'big client' to whom you illustrate capabilities by this kind of hack? This is a black market thing, right? I don't doubt it, I'm just curious what this market is, and what it means to be a 'big client' in it, etc.
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>Such a hack is worth way, WAY more than the few BTC it could bring. lol tons of ppl have been scammed. If by 'little' you means hundreds of k. In some Eastern European country that can last a lifetime.
They could have make >$10m With Elon’s account alone by manipulating the share price. A few 100k is nothing