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Re:Binance exchange hackers steal bitcoins worth $41m by 0x54D5 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @08:20AM (#19858107)
Bitcoin itself wasn't hacked. They stole the keys from a server most likely.

I don't think it's possible to harden a modern OS against some potential hacker on the internet. Especially when we know that 0-days are sold and traded. So the idea of putting $41m worth of Bitcoin in a single wallet is frankly frighting to me. We saw what happens with pwn2own. Now scale that up a few million USDs.

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Re:Binance exchange hackers steal bitcoins worth $41m by repomies68 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @08:23AM (#19858131)
Well if 7000 stolen from hot wallet is something like 2% of assets and rest is in cold storage, then the risk is manageable. However I agree that 7000 BTC is a lot even if you are running a huge exchange.
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