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How did the encrypted keys leak?

• vmception 6y ago
  I don't know from this article and other articles I've seen: > A file that some claimed was an encrypted bitcoin wallet containing the keys to the funds has been circulated in cryptocurrency communities for the past year, and – if it is what it was claimed to be – then a combination of brute computing power and good luck could have successfully decrypted the wallet.
  • 3ahrbd43 6y ago
    It likely didn’t really leak. It’s a trick/scam they play on the naive. One can replace the cleartext section in the wallet with a unrelated tx reference that doesn’t match the actual encrypted private key. The wallet will act like the real one (it will show the referenced tx in the UI) but even if you could decrypt the encrypted private key, it would be for the wrong pubkey.
    • vmception 6y ago
      that's hilarious
    • WanderPanda 6y ago
      And then claim someone else stole them, when in reality they are just moving it to another address of their own