Luke Dash, one of core developers of Bitcoin just got all his Bitcoins stolen.

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    [–]dissidentrhetoric 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    From what I read on twitter, sounds like they stole his private keys and he used those to encrypt his seed/password for his wallet. Someone pointed out that his private key should have a password. Strangely at one point he said his wallet was so old that it didn't have a seed. Not sure why anyone with £3 million in btc would be an old wallet. Could be a way to avoid paying tax though, say its stolen, then sell it on the side.

    I suspect from the sound of things his entire PC was compromised for a few months and then they stole all his passwords.

    [–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Sounds like his whole machine was compromised and they got all his accounts and stuff. It sounds like he didn't have his Bitcoins encrypted and or probably used one of those stupid hardware wallets that don't really add any security in this situation.