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Comment by walletdrainer | Hacker News Reader

So apparently the FBI or other US agency hacked this guy and drained his wallets? No indication he’s been arrested, wallets said to be unhosted.

Clearly should’ve used an offline wallet lol.

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It may not be a hack, but a warrant like 'Hey Google, give us access to this guy's Gmail.'

You can’t get a warrant for a bitcoin wallet right?

A surprising number of 'sophisticated' criminals backup their seed phrase to the cloud.

The article mentions seed phrases being saved by the owner. What if he saved them online?

https://xkcd.com/538/

They did not physically catch the owners apparently.

What happens if it doesn't work?

If it was a last resort and it didn't work, then we wouldn't be in this thread...

You move to the screwdriver

Taylor is on to something here: https://x.com/tayvano_/status/1978273602719158448

tl;dr: Someone cracked these weak entropy wallets 3+ years before anyone else and kept it secret

Whether that was the USG or another entity has yet to be revealed

Please use xcancel: https://xcancel.com/tayvano_/status/1978273602719158448 when linking to X since a lot of us don't have accounts or just don't want to log in.

403 Forbidden, VPN

After having read the thread it's not clear to me where the "3 years" comes from ?

EDIT and were the keys cracked, or were the passphrases obtained ? It's mentioned elsewhere that he had them written down. Which would be a much easier "hack"

Risky move, since it is easy to move the funds to a new address at any time.

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