Security Incident · Wallet
Bitfloor Private Key Leak
Bitcoin exchange Bitfloor suspended operations after the theft of $250,000.
- Reported loss
- 24,000 BTC
- Attack category
- Private Key Leakage
Incident Overview
The founder Roman Shtylman explained in a post on the Bitcoin Forum that an attacker obtained an unencrypted backup of exchange wallet keys and used these keys to transfer "BitFloor on hand" Most of the coins he held," Shtilman later locked this part of the money at around 24,000 BTC.
Sources & References
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