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dist-epochtoday at 10:04 AM2 repliesview on HN

And they waited 5 years to exploit it?

And do you think the NSA desperately needed $90 mil (the amount stolen so far), so they created this elaborate backdoor? Or were they waiting until Satoshi or Binance decided to deposit a billion dollars into this wallet?

All the employees which touched the code will be on watch lists now anyway. And sudden new house or yacht will be immediately flagged.


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londons_exploretoday at 10:23 AM

Need not be the NSA. Might just be some regular thief.

The longer they wait, the more they get to steal after all.

josephgtoday at 11:02 AM

> And do you think the NSA desperately needed $90 mil (the amount stolen so far)

If this was done as part of an operation, we would have no idea what it was actually used for. It’s very unlikely that the crypto wallet thefts we know about were the intended target.