Any question relating to theft of bitcoins from a wallet (excluding scams - which has a separate tag)
Questions tagged [theft]
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Can one safely buy vanity addresses from a third party without risking one's coins from being stolen?
One can easily generate vanity addresses for Bitcoin, but they can take quite awhile to generate. Outsourcing that process to someone with a strong mining rig is an option, but then one runs into the risk of the person generating the address using…
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Why can't we fight Bitcoin thieves by not accepting payments from hacked accounts?
Why won't we simply stop accepting payments from hacked accounts? We know their public addresses, right? Sure, hackers still will be able to compromise user's accounts, but at last that money won't be spendable, right?
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Is there a 'BTC Refund Department'?
I have been scammed 6 months ago.
Now someone is calling me from BTC REFUND DEPARTMENT. He said that I have under my name the bitcoins that have been scammed. But the way to take this amount is to synchronise my wallet with the address that the…
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Why is Bitcoin so susceptible to credit card fraud?
I understand that you can't buy Bitcoins with a credit card due to massive fraud problems involving chargebacks. Why is Bitcoin more susceptible to this then the thousands of other businesses that take credit card payments for non-physical products…
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How do you derive the private key from two signatures that share the same k value?
I wrote my own ECDSA signature algorithm just for the purpose of creating unit tests.
With it I created two signatures which went into transaction 56ec7ca7df..., sending from 1GXFXm3es.... These signatures used the same k values, although k values…
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What are the most notable cases of Bitcoin scams?
Bitcoins can be easily used to scam people out of their money due to the inability to perform charge-backs. What are the most notable cases of Bitcoin scams that are known?
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How can hackers cash out stolen bitcoin?
I've read about a lot of Bitcoin Heists and Thefts: from hackers that stole bitcoin from Exchange (Due to their poor security measures) or from Bitcoin users, to scam websites and so forth.
Some of these Heists and Thefts involve huge sums of…
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The incident with 92 billion bitcoins
There is a documented case from 2010 when a block with 92 billion bitcoins was discovered. The bug was found and software was patched within 5 hours and everyone had to "hit the load button" to an earlier blockchain. It was speculated to be…
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What happens if my wallet gets "hacked" and my BTC is stolen?
What if my wallet gets hacked and the hacker transfers all BTC to his account?
Is there is any way to get it back, or to open a dispute to specific address or anything else?
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What is the story behind the "Linode problem"?
What is the story behind the "Linode problem"? How did the service become compromised and what has exactly happened because of it?
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How much Bitcoin was lost in the Jul. 2011 MyBitcoin site shutdown incident?
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MyBitcoin
How much money was lost when it shut down? (You can also edit the wiki page and add this info). Best estimates of course.
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What are the most notable attacks on pools?
Since Bitcoin's inception there have been several attacks on mining pools. There was the Linode problem, where some 46,000 BTC were stolen from pool accounts.
What are some other notable attacks on mining pools?
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In Ripple, when an IOU is defaulted upon, who gets hurt?
Let's say there are five people.
Alice <-> Bob <-> Charlie <-> David <-> Eve
Each of them trusts the person next to them. For instance, Charlie trusts Bob and David, but not Alice or Eve.
Alice run a donut shop. One day, Eve comes in and asks to…
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After being scammed, has anyone ever actually managed to recover their BTC?
Like real world cash problems, we know that scams happen in the Bitcoin community at least as often if not more often for a variety of reasons (oversight, regulation, standards of security, street savvy, etc., or lack thereof).
Given little more…
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Is bitcoinica.com planning to reopen after the 11th May 2012 theft?
On 11th May, 2012, 18,547 BTC were reported stolen from bitcoinica.com as stated here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=81045.0
The bitcoinica.com website is unresponsive at the time of writing this. Are they planning to reopen? Have they…
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