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een attack op devices specifically designed te secure bitcoins has led te de theft van tens van millions van euros in bitcoins.
dit comes van een study met de American company Galaxy.
According te their estimates, om least 1,596 bitcoins have is stolen, met een total value van meer dan 88 million euros.
de stolen bitcoins were possibly due te een misconfiguration van devices van Coinkite, een Canadian company.
Coinkite produces devices die is used te generate digital access codes voor de protection van bitcoins.
deze devices, resembling calculators, is used met people om home.
Although de bitcoins themselves is niet stored op deze devices, they create een secret access code die protects de cryptocurrencies.
Vulnerability in Security Normally, deze access codes cannot be cracked, maar due te een error, het turned out te be possible.
dit meant die in certain cases someone met een cracked code kunnen gain access te de supposedly well-secured bitcoins van others.
Warning en Advice Coinkite has now sent warning messages indicating die customers nog run de risk van losing their cryptocurrencies.
They also advise transferring de bitcoins te een safer location as soon as possible.
Galaxy estimates die bitcoins van meer dan seven thousand addresses have is stolen en thinks die de damage kunnen ultimately amount te meer dan 111 million euros.
Whether Dutch victims have is affected is nog unknown.
de attack took place during de night van Wednesday te Thursday.
Within 41 minutes, meer dan 60 million euros worth van bitcoins were stolen.
meer coins were stolen om later times.
de identity van de perpetrator(s) is nog unknown.
According te een block analysis met de American company Block, de vulnerability has is in de software van Coinkite's devices since 2021, maar het is niet discovered tot recently.
Coinkite reports die they is nog conducting their investigation en will come met meer details later.
