He created the addresses and sent the bitcoins to his wallet
Whoever "he" is, I'm pretty sure he didn't create those addresses. I found a completely different (and rather interesting) story for address 1AYLzYN7SGu5FQLBTADBzqKm4b6Udt6Bw6:In March 2011, the organization known as weusecoins released the well-known video What is Bitcoin?. Needing money to pay for production, the organization collected donations through a support drive that netted over 9,000 bitcoins. The video was finished and released, to much acclaim, for a total of 2,000 bitcoins. A surplus of 7,000 bitcoins remained, raising the question of how to store it.
Mindful of thefts resulting from improper storage, the weusecoins team developed a high-security plan. A virtual machine would be used to isolate the Bitcoin wallet from the rest of a computer system. Encrypted backups would be uploaded to cloud servers for safekeeping.
As often happens with computers, things went wrong and the entire sum of 7,000 bitcoins was lost. Foul play was not involved. Rather, the funds simply became inaccessible. Private keys controlling two critical donation addresses were lost. The high-security plan had backfired, locking the team out of its own wallet.
Mindful of thefts resulting from improper storage, the weusecoins team developed a high-security plan. A virtual machine would be used to isolate the Bitcoin wallet from the rest of a computer system. Encrypted backups would be uploaded to cloud servers for safekeeping.
As often happens with computers, things went wrong and the entire sum of 7,000 bitcoins was lost. Foul play was not involved. Rather, the funds simply became inaccessible. Private keys controlling two critical donation addresses were lost. The high-security plan had backfired, locking the team out of its own wallet.
