Bitcoin theft equivalent to 275 million yen, whether hacking or staff's running away?

ByEmily

Virtual currency bit coin andClose relationshipThe illegal drug site that was found to be "Silk roadSuccessor site of "Silk road 2.0"Was hacked and a bite coin equivalent to a total of 2.7 million dollars (about 275 million yen) was stolen occurred on February 13. There is a possibility that the Silk Road 2.0 staff could have escaped bit coins at the present day after one day, rather than being stolen by external hackers.

Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen - $ 2.7 Miliion | Deep Dot Web
http://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/02/13/silk-road-2-hacked-bitcoins-stolen-unknown-amount/

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The fact that Silk Road 2.0 was hacked on a large scale is that in the e-mail sent by the administrator to the site members on February 13, 2014, "Hackers are capable and capable of running on a Silk Road 2.0 system I finally recovered the bit coin repeatedly and again until the bit coin became empty, I finally became empty, I was disqualified from the leader and I was completely beaten up. " Bit coins stolen are both owned by Silk Road 2.0 and those owned by Silk Road 2.0, according to a computer security researcher it is believed that the total will exceed $ 2.7 million (about 270 million yen) I will. After the poster was posted by the administrator, all transactions on Silk Road 2.0 were stopped.

The administrator who is named Defcon (Defcon) considers the three people who were users of Silk Road 2.0 as the criminal who hacked and thought that "the criminals used the bug of the bit coin protocol" It seems to be.

For bit coins "Transaction Malleability (transactionA mistake) bug was discovered, and using this bug it was possible for a DoS attack that a malicious third party rewrites the hash of a newly created deal. Initially the Bitcoin Foundation denied the existence of a bug and pointed out a bugMt. GoxYaBitstampThe transaction of the bit coin stops after February 10. As we approached the bug improvement, the foundation acknowledged the existence of the bug and cooperated with the exchange to solve the problem.

Silk Road 2.0 has already been plagued by bugs since its inception in November 2013, according to Defcon, this hacking is based on transaction malleability, but users of Silk Road 2.0 are On the other hand, I suspect that "Silk Road 2.0 uses the existence of bugs to hide their own mistakes" and "Does the staff run away with the user's bit coin?" AndDeep Dot WebAccording to the report, apparently this case is not a hack but the possibility of escape by Silk Road 2.0 is increasing.

Details are still unknown at the moment, but the truth examination is required in the future.