Detail Analysis
Date:
Status:
Count:
Contributor:
October 15, 2013
Verified
1
zerofriction.io
Loss Amount:
100,000
Recovered Amount:
-
Currency:
Dollars, BTC
KYC By:
Audit By:
None
None
Website:
No data
Twitter:
No data
Discord:
No data
Telegram:
No data
Medium:
No data
Github:
No data
Key Indicators
Platform:
Type:
Category:
Method:
Bitcoin
Exchange
Assets
Poor Key Management
Extended Method:
Private key leak, hot wallet
Data Sources:
Canadian Bitcoins is a cryptocurrency brokerage allowing customers to buy or sell bitcoins, litecoins and other cryptocurrencies. Canadian Bitcoins’ servers were being run by a company called Rogers Data Centre (who were technically in the process of taking the data centre over from its previous operator, Granite Networks). The Bitcoin thief started a customer service chat session with Granite Networks, the company hosting Canadian Bitcoins’ server, and claimed to have a problem with it. The hacker pretended to be Canadian Bitcoins CEO James Grant over instant message. According to a text copy of the chat session obtained by the Citizen, at no point during the nearly two-hour-long conversation was the caller asked to verify his identity. After being asked, the technical support worker gained access to Grant’s locked server pen, plugged in a laptop and then manually gave the fraudster access to Canadian Bitcoins servers, where he cleaned out a wallet containing 149.94 bitcoins, valued at around $100,000.
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