US Feds Recover Colonial Hacker’s BTC Ransom

Discussion in 'Crypto Assets' started by bone, Jun 7, 2021.

  1. MKTrader

    MKTrader

    Yeah, friends who work in cybersecurity have been telling me this. The blockchain isn't really secure, nothing is truly private and the race to quantum computing will determine the real winners and losers.
     
    #11     Jun 8, 2021
  2. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    oh, ffs, all the feds needed was the goons ransom address:

    https://blockchain.coinmarketcap.com/chain/bitcoin
     
    #12     Jun 8, 2021
  3. MKTrader

    MKTrader

    Maybe, maybe not. I have my doubts about the whole thing seeing how certain elites were telling us there would be cyberattacks last fall...then voila, here they come.
     
    #13     Jun 8, 2021
  4. Like "Spy vs Spy" in mad magazine. :)
     
    #14     Jun 8, 2021
  5. Girija

    Girija

    For 75 BTC why did the hackers take so much pain. Looks kinda cheap
     
    #15     Jun 8, 2021
  6. KCalhoun

    KCalhoun

    I still don't "get" bitcoin. Seems like fake digital monopoly money. I'm not touching it, seems phony, risky.
     
    #16     Jun 8, 2021
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  7. virtusa

    virtusa

    You remind me of this man:

     
    #17     Jun 8, 2021
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  8. virtusa

    virtusa

    Barking dogs seldom bite. Dogs that don't bark are much more dangerous.

    Governments don't tell what they are able of. Because that would weaken the effect if they take action.

    NSA never told they read billions of emails around the world. Because that would wake up sleeping dogs and damage the result of the operation.

    European police managed last year to break the code of the sky phones that were used by thousands of criminals. They did not tell that they were able to do so. They waited and gathered as much information as possible. As the criminals were thinking they were untouchable, they gave a massive amount of information to the police. That information was used to put them behind bars.

    Yesterday something similar happened in 19 countries around the world. Again the police was able to do the impossible and caught again hundreds of criminals.
    https://www.al.com/news/2021/06/fbi...shield-lead-to-800-arrests-in-16-nations.html

    Nobody has any idea how hard the crypto's can be hurt. And those who know it, will not tell it. The safety feeling is most probably fake. Future will tell.

    if the US can destroy the profits made by Russian professionals, they surely can do that with joe average who is holding crypto's.
     
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    #18     Jun 8, 2021
  9. bone

    bone

    Bitcoin (BTC-USD) and Ethereum (ETH-USD) both sharply lower today.
     
    #19     Jun 8, 2021
  10. MKTrader

    MKTrader

    #20     Jun 8, 2021