THELOGICALINDIAN - During the aftermost two years hackers accept been aggravating to able the seventhlargest bitcoin wallet an abode that holds 69370 BTC or 712 actor application todays barter amount According to the CTO of the cybercrime intelligence close Hudson Rock the wallet is actuality publicized on hacking forums in adjustment to able the password
Wallets with a massive bulk of bitcoin (BTC) are listed on bitinfocharts.com in a account alleged the “Bitcoin Rich List.” During the aftermost ten years, crypto proponents accept scrutinized this account in adjustment to amount out the owners or almanac cogent transfers.
According to a report appear by Vice, the seventh richest BTC address is a ambition for hackers, as an apparent wallet.dat book has been anesthetized about hacker forums for 12 to alike 24 months. On Twitter, Alon Gal, the Chief Technology Officer of cybercrime close Hudson Rock explained the situation.
“Get this,” Gal tweeted. “There is a bitcoin wallet with 69,000 bitcoins that is actuality anesthetized about amid hackers/crackers for the accomplished [two] years for the purpose of arise the password, no success so far. I accept the wallet, Google angle me up with a breakthrough computer please,” the cybercrime intelligence able added.
Following Gal’s tweet, he was inundated with a cardinal of absolute letters on Twitter allurement about the wallet. Gal added wrote:
News.Bitcoin.com additionally apparent that the wallet.dat book has been affairs on a cardinal of websites like Bitcointalk.org. The 69,000 BTC wallet book has been apparent on Satoshidisk.com, and All Private Keys as well. The website All Private Keys operates a bazaar so individuals and groups can buy assertive files in adjustment to able a cardinal of accessible bitcoin addresses.
The book actuality awash on Satoshidisk.com is affairs for 0.08929505 BTC or $1,050 application today’s barter rate. On Friday, 321 bodies beheld the Satoshidisk.com advertisement that allegedly contains the wallet.dat file.
Despite the assorted attempts to able the wallet with $712 actor account of BTC, no one has been able to able it yet. Moreover, Gal explained on Twitter that there is possibly a arrangement that allows addition to “forge a wallet,” which agency the abode ability absolutely be empty.
“Someone alerted me that there ability be a adjustment to coin wallets, although I don’t apperceive if it is accurate or if it was activated to this specific wallet,” Gal tweeted. “There is a advancing bazaar for affairs uncracked wallets area I apperceive some absurd had actual success,” the Hudson Rock CTO wrote.
Of course, abounding individuals were agnostic of any of the alleged wallet.dat book sales, and the website All Private Keys. Some bodies accept that all of the sites are basically affairs affected keys and wallet.dat files to account BTC.
“How does one apperceive [the exchange All Private Keys] is not aloof a betray to get bodies to accelerate them BTC and in acknowledgment accord them bound abandoned wallets?” one being asked in Gal’s Twitter thread.
News.Bitcoin.com does not acclaim downloading or purchasing wallet.dat files or declared clandestine keys, as it is awful acceptable that best of these advertisements are scams. If it’s too acceptable to be true, it apparently is.
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