No Scrooge: KeepKey Offers 30 BTC Reward For Capture Of Christmas Day Hacker
Hardware wallet manufacturer KeepKey is offering 30 Bitcoins ($30,400) as a reward for the capture of a hacker who gained access to emails and customer information on Christmas Day. CEO: email, phone compromised. CEO Darin Stanchfield reported that his email address and phone account had been “compromised,” and was seeking support from tech experts. In a subsequent blog post on New Year’s Eve, Stanchfield went into detail about the hack, which KeepKey engineers managed to contain. “Around 9:00 pm PST, an attacker was able to activate a new phone under my PIN-protected Verizon account,” he....
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KeepKey, a hardware bitcoin wallet, has advised customers that a hacker on December 25th got into the owner’s email account using the wallet’s account recovery mechanism and tried resetting passwords linked to the compromised email address, according to a KeepKey blog. The company shut down the affected email service and reversed the account resets. The hacker then demanded 30 million BTC to stop the attacks, which the company did not oblige and notified the FBI. The company said the attacker may have stolen some customer information. KeepKey is offering a 30 BTC reward for information....
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KeepKey's new USB bitcoin wallet has gone on sale, enabling consumers to store their bitcoins offline. The wallet, which is on sale for $239, allows users to overcome the security problems that come with storing bitcoin on a computer or using third-party custodians. Speaking about the new product, Ken Heutmaker, a software engineer at KeepKey, said: "The KeepKey security model was designed to ensure that the user always has complete control over their private keys. We feel that relying on trusted third parties degrades the security and privacy that the bitcoin ecosystem offers." How does....
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