According to the blockchain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence, the Chinese Mining Pool Lubian was hacked for 127,426 bitcoins (BTC) in 2020 for 127,426 bitcoins (BTCs), which was around $ 3.5 billion at that time, which was the biggest crypto hacker in history.
Platform retroactive open On Saturday, Waris claimed that Lubian, which emerged as the sixth largest BTC mining pool at that time, was first hacked on December 28, 2020.
About 90% of the pool’s BTC was stolen by the actor before the danger before Lubian step The remaining 11,886 for BTC Recovery Wallet. Intelligence platform said that neither the platform nor the hacker propagated the attack at that time.
The mining pool embedded an OP_RETURN message at each wallet address related to hackers in 1,516 different messages, costing about 1.4 BTCs. Arkham’s team also wrote:
“It appears that Lubian was using an algorithm to generate his private keys that were susceptible to cruel-force attacks. It could be the exploited vulnerability by hackers.”
Stolen bitcoins are now about $ 14.5 billion at current prices, and the attacks in the attack highlight the need to practice active safety measures and private key management to the users, which depends only on the most strong random number generator to make the keys.
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Lubian hack tops Bibit hack and other notorious Crypto Heests
In February, the Bibit Exchange was hacked for $ 1.5 billion and the attack at that time was described as the biggest crypto hack in history.
According to a post -mortem, an agreement was blamed by the bybit attack for the Safewallet Developer Machine Report From Safewallet and Cyber Security firm Mandent.
These hackers exploited the developer’s machine by installing malware on the system and then using the developer’s Amazon web services (AWS) tokens, while the developer was online and active.
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This allowed hackers to reach sensitive systems without installing any alarm bells or without triggering a response from the team.
In April, an elderly man lost $ 330 million in bitcoin through a social engineering attack, which was looted through 300 different wallet addresses.
The BTC Heist was considered the fifth largest crypto heir in history at that time, and $ 330 million was only $ 7 million frozen In the immediate awakening of the attack.
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