Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds

Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by ctvo on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @12:16PM (#30261184)

> ...Lichtenstein Email 2 was held at a U.S.-based provider that offered email as well as cloud storage services, among other products.

Reads suspiciously like Gmail. Oh no. You stored your keys weakly encrypted on Google Drive?!

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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by hobo_mark on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @12:19PM (#30261238)

Or Microsoft, but yes, indeed...

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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by caf on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:36PM (#30267997)

Or Apple...

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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:29AM (#30272365)

I doubt it was weakly encrypted. But FBI has non-brute force decryption methods at their disposal.

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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by GrantZvolsky on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:39PM (#30264304)

It wasn't necessarily weakly encrypted. The key may have been compromised, which I find more likely.

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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by YarickR2 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @04:34PM (#30265065)

Thermorectal cryptanalysis, for sure (relevant xkcd mentions pipe wrench, though)

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