Mazdak@lemmy.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoCrypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokenswww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1250arrow-down11
arrow-up1249arrow-down1external-linkCrypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokenswww.bloomberg.comMazdak@lemmy.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squareDaPorkchop_@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days agoMaking more wallets would cost nothing more than a few hundred bytes of storage each for the keys. I have no idea why they wouldn’t have split their funds into evenly sized wallets of, say, $1M each.
Making more wallets would cost nothing more than a few hundred bytes of storage each for the keys. I have no idea why they wouldn’t have split their funds into evenly sized wallets of, say, $1M each.