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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by paulpauper on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @01:30PM (#30262406)
this would be trivial to code and could search for one of the bip 39 dictionary words. github key thieves do this already.
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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by vmception on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @02:03PM (#30262883)
Happened to many on dropbox too

You would never know if it was somebody employed there or at the data center or at the government agency tapping the servers

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Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds by dannyw on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @05:43AM (#30271179)
Yep, I definitely recall numerous incidents of people putting a private key onto a dropbox file, never sharing it with anyone, have 2FA on their accounts (with no unauthorized activity), and then seeing funds disappear.
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