Hackers Target Bitcoin Wallet Holding Billions Swiped From Mt. Gox

Hackers seem to target the old Bitcoin A address that holds more than $ 8 billion in digital coins stolen from the demolished Crypto Exchange, Mt. Gox.

As the first is marked Bitmex researchPotential attackers sent the address-1feexv6bahb8ybzjqqmjjrccrhgw9sb6Uf-transaction using op_return.

Op_return – what has was controversial Among some users – is a way to store information on Bitcoin’s blockchain. In this case, the transaction sent to the wallet contains the text displaying the website address, in an apparent attempt to enter the owner into the page examination.

The website address leads to a page that reads: “It seems that this digital wallet is lost or abandoned. Our client has taken over constructive possession and seeks [sic] To determine if there is a well -meaning owner. “

And the website claims that Saloman Brothers-Sada is a closed investment bank on Wall Street.

Bitmex said on X that “the website seems illegitimate” and part of “liquid fraud with Bitcoin”, further noting that the website seeks to get personal information from the owner of the wallet. Researchers added that numerous addresses from 2011 were targeted.

The address in question is known: first received 79,956 BTC – today worth $ 8.7 billion – in 2011. The coins came from the hacked Japanese Crypto Exchange, Mt. Gox, who was Close a decade ago After a few hacks.

The earliest BTC investors are useful, Crooks fled with a total of 850,000 bitcoins – worth more than $ 92.3 billion today.

The rehab’s proposal was approved In 2021, who promised to refute about 90% of the assets that owed the affected customers.

The implementation of the law was able to reduce only 140,000 bitcoins to restore creditors. Many of the remaining coins sit, collecting dust in addresses like the one now targeting apparent fraudsters.