Silk Road 2.0 Hacked: $2.5 million in Bitcoins Stolen! Administrator makes an emotional appeal

An emotional appeal posted on the dark market’s official forum clearly stated that “We have been hacked” and nearly $2.4 to $2.7 million of Bitcoins have been disappeared.  Bitcoin is often referred to as the digital currency or the cryptocurrency and is explained clearly here. The Defcon note reads: I must utter words all too familiar to this scarred community: We have been hacked.  Our initial investigations indicate that a vendor exploited a recently discovered vulnerability in the Bitcoin protocol known as ‘transaction malleability’ to repeatedly withdraw coins from our system until it was completely empty. Read More….

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