Mazdak@lemmy.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoCrypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokenswww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up10
arrow-up10external-linkCrypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokenswww.bloomberg.comMazdak@lemmy.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square2fedilink
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoHow does one get ones hands on a cold wallet?
minus-squaresubversive_dev@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoMy speculations: “insecure from the start” - as in , the wallet was never that “cold” with that amount of money, it’s easy to imagine an “insider threat” the hackers could have gotten lucky and struck right when the company was doing legitimate operations on the wallet but probably it’s a towering mountain of incompetence, composed of the elements above and more
How does one get ones hands on a cold wallet?
My speculations:
“insecure from the start” - as in , the wallet was never that “cold”
with that amount of money, it’s easy to imagine an “insider threat”
the hackers could have gotten lucky and struck right when the company was doing legitimate operations on the wallet
but probably it’s a towering mountain of incompetence, composed of the elements above and more