Much of the serious damage has been done through social engineering of cell phone providers. My choice for most interesting personal hack: https://www.forbes.

Much of the serious damage has been done through social engineering of cell phone providers. My choice for most interesting personal hack: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/12/20/hackers-have-stolen-millions-of-dollars-in-bitcoin-using-only-phone-numbers/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/12/20/hackers-ha... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13592402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13592402 He had kept it offline for most of the past several years, but had connected that device in recent weeks to move them somewhere more secure and sell some. Though he had locked it with a 30-character password, the hackers moved the coins off At the exchange level, a highly recommended summary of the Mt Gox debacle was discussed recently: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/09/17/kim-nilsson-of-wizsec-how-the-bitcoins-were-stolen-from-mt-gox/ https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/09/17/kim-nilsson-... [video] | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15272152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15272152 There have been hosting-provider-level breaches that might be more technically interesting (Linode 2012): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654110 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654110 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655137 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655355