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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by gruez on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:17PM (#34213457)
Where was this posted? Can you post a link?

edit:

if you're talking about https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609661811455819776, my guess is that he's either omitting something (eg. the cold wallet was internet connected, or there was a backup of its wallet floating around somewhere), or suffered a stuxnet level attack.

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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by bbbbb5 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:20PM (#34213475)
In the twitter thread the OP links to.

https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609683917644120067

You can easily browse through his recent tweets here https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/with_replies

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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by gruez on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:23PM (#34213504)
Thanks, added a correction.
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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by bbbbb5 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:27PM (#34213534)
Yeah, my best guess is that he was owned for a while and the hackers managed to pivot into everything owns. The plan was probably to backdoor bitcoin core, but after luke-jr detected his server being compromised the hackers figured they were burned and decided to run off with whatever bitcoin they could get from him.
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