North Korea steals $1.5 of bitcoin?

[Horace]

Unclear how someone steals cryptocurrency, unless people are keeping their wallet keys on hackable servers. Of course the journalist who wrote this story doesn't know either, so the question is unexplored in the piece.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/politics/north-korean-hackers-crypto-hack/index.html

[taiwan_girl]

@Horace said in North Korea steals $1.5 of bitcoin?:

people are keeping their wallet keys on hackable servers

I would think that this is the case. (but I dont know much about crypto. LOL)

[taiwan_girl]

Interesting story about how the thieves could have stolen the bitcoin.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/how-north-korea-pulled-off-a-1-5-billion-crypto-heist-the-biggest-in-history/