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For at least one year, hackers have been trying to break into a cryptocurrency wallet that supposedly holds 69,370 bitcoins (about $ 690 million). According to a website that tracks the number of bitcoin wallets, this wallet is the seventh largest in the world in terms of the number of bitcoins, and whoever can hack it will hit the jackpot.
The cryptocurrency wallet (address 1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx) was discovered this week by Hudson Rock Chief Technology Officer Alon Gal for sale on the popular cybercriminal forum RaidForums. According to him, hackers have been trying unsuccessfully to hack this wallet for some time, and even put it up for sale several times.
On July 29 last year, someone under the pseudonym humerh3 tried to sell the wallet on the popular Bitcointalk forum dedicated to cryptocurrency. It was also spotted for sale on the All Private Keys website earlier this year, but this offer has now been withdrawn.
However, there is no guarantee that the wallet.dat file actually contains any bitcoins. The attackers could spoof the wallet so that it had the address 1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx, but a different private key. According to the head of Wallet Recovery Services, which allows wallet owners who have lost their keys to get their money back, there are ways to give the wallet the appearance of a high balance.
“You can change the file in the binary editor and change the public key of one of the address pairs to the key of a high-balance BTC wallet,” the head of Wallet Recovery Services told Motherboard.
Simply put, before the wallet is hacked, it is impossible to say what amount is actually stored in it, since it is quite possible to modify the wallet in such a way as to pass it off as something that it is not.
It is possible that it is impossible to hack a wallet. Most likely, it is protected with a long unique password, and the wallet.dat file is encrypted using two algorithms - AES-256-CBC and SHA-512, which will take a huge amount of time to crack.
The cryptocurrency wallet (address 1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx) was discovered this week by Hudson Rock Chief Technology Officer Alon Gal for sale on the popular cybercriminal forum RaidForums. According to him, hackers have been trying unsuccessfully to hack this wallet for some time, and even put it up for sale several times.
On July 29 last year, someone under the pseudonym humerh3 tried to sell the wallet on the popular Bitcointalk forum dedicated to cryptocurrency. It was also spotted for sale on the All Private Keys website earlier this year, but this offer has now been withdrawn.
However, there is no guarantee that the wallet.dat file actually contains any bitcoins. The attackers could spoof the wallet so that it had the address 1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx, but a different private key. According to the head of Wallet Recovery Services, which allows wallet owners who have lost their keys to get their money back, there are ways to give the wallet the appearance of a high balance.
“You can change the file in the binary editor and change the public key of one of the address pairs to the key of a high-balance BTC wallet,” the head of Wallet Recovery Services told Motherboard.
Simply put, before the wallet is hacked, it is impossible to say what amount is actually stored in it, since it is quite possible to modify the wallet in such a way as to pass it off as something that it is not.
It is possible that it is impossible to hack a wallet. Most likely, it is protected with a long unique password, and the wallet.dat file is encrypted using two algorithms - AES-256-CBC and SHA-512, which will take a huge amount of time to crack.
