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 Silk Road 2 Hacked, $2.7 Million Worth of Bitcoins StolenSilk Road, an anonymous online marketplace where users paid in bitcoins and the goods were often illegal, was seized and shut down by the FBI in 2013. Shortly thereafter, Silk Road 2 came online and trade resumed. Last week, the site's administrator announced that hackers had exploited a newly discovered vulnerability in Bitcoin protocol and emptied Silk Road 2's coffers—withdrawing the equivalent of $2.7 million from customers' accounts. Not everyone believes the administrator's account of events; some speculate that he saw an opportunity when the vulnerability came to light and stole the money knowing he could blame the theft on hackers. More...
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Just when people were starting to believe the bitcoin could be the currency of the future, these robberies can bite the confidence.
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Since the Silk Road site is often used for illegal purposes, does it matter that the "money" was stolen? Are other sites that use bitcoins also often used for illegal purposes?
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"Defcon said that all its customers' bitcoins were being stored online because of planned relaunches of some of the site's features." What sort of features would require all customers to have their BTC stored online with them at launch time? And how the heck did they convince their users to actually DO that?
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Aww, those poor babies. "Wahh, wahh, I want to have stuff I don't have permission to have! Why can't I have ALL the cookies in the cookie jar, Mommy!? I DON'T WANT TO GO TO MY ROOM!" Poor, poor babies. :( Their indulgences are SO important...to themselves.
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Location: Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Bitcoin is a currency very useful for cybercrime.
Attackers has been targeted payment processors and financial services firms in order to steal corporate financial data straight from the source
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