A Darknet Vendor is Selling Millions Of Stolen Bitcoin User Accounts
A darknet vendor called “DoubleFlag” is selling user data stolen between 2011 and 2017 from 11 bitcoin forums for traders and miners, according to Hackread.com. The selling price is $400 (0.3817 BTC). The heists include: • About 12 million data units from 536,727 MerlinsMagicBitcoin.com accounts stolen in January 2017. • 514,409 from BitcoinTalk.org stolen in May 2015. • 568,357 stolen from BTC-E in October 2014. • 21,439 stolen from BTC4Free in January 2014. • 3,153 from Bitcoin.Lixter.com in September 2014. • 1,780 from BitLeak.net in March 2014. • 28,298 from DogeWallet.com in January....
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