Not sure it is a "Mega-Hack" but it certainly is about bitcoin.
There is some pretty poor research in this article though. After providing a link to the password file, they go on to report that they don't know if the salt was per-user or site wide. It is pretty easy to figure that out. Here's one entry:
$1$yHWqORNr$rRF7U59c9UY9utiW/ZnF..
The stuff between the second and third $ is the salt, "yHWqORNr". Here's another entry
$1$eVe/yQrF$HNws4a6lsEuUCvvUHZPil/
See how the salt is different? "eVe/yQrF" so there were per account salts.
Topic: Inside the Mega-Hack of Bitcoin: the Full Story (Read 1962 times)
"Last Monday at around 5 p.m. 25,000 Bitcoins were transferred from 478 accounts on the currency's largest exchange".
Does someone know something we don't?
I thought AllinVain had everything in one account. No?
Where do the 478 accounts come into play?
In the same article a few paragraphs down....
"On Monday at around 5 pm, 25,000 bitcoins were transferred into account "1KPTdMb6p7H3YCwsy FqrEmKGmsHqe1Q3jg". The coins in question came from 25,000 accounts."
So is it 478 accounts or 25,000 accounts?
Does someone know something we don't?
I thought AllinVain had everything in one account. No?
Where do the 478 accounts come into play?
In the same article a few paragraphs down....
"On Monday at around 5 pm, 25,000 bitcoins were transferred into account "1KPTdMb6p7H3YCwsy FqrEmKGmsHqe1Q3jg". The coins in question came from 25,000 accounts."
So is it 478 accounts or 25,000 accounts?
title is misleading. it's hardly a "mega-hack", nor is it about bitcoins.
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