What happened
OzCoin, a Bitcoin mining pool, has reported that an unknown attacker managed to hack into their server, defacing their website and database and stealing 923 BTC ($135,000) from their Bitcoin wallet. However, in less than a day over half of the money was seized as it was passing through the web wallet StrongCoin, and promptly returned to Ozcoin.
Case & protocol details
Funds Recovery
Recovered
$83K
Net Loss
$51,840
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Report bitcoinmagazine.com
- report Report bitcointalk.org
- analysis Web Archive web.archive.org
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