Mazdak@lemmy.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoCrypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokenswww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up1250arrow-down11
arrow-up1249arrow-down1external-linkCrypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokenswww.bloomberg.comMazdak@lemmy.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square45linkfedilink
minus-squareDaPorkchop_ [they/she/it]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoMaking more wallets would cost nothing more than a few hundred bytes of storage each for the keys. I have no idea why they wouldn’t have split their funds into evenly sized wallets of, say, $1M each.
Making more wallets would cost nothing more than a few hundred bytes of storage each for the keys. I have no idea why they wouldn’t have split their funds into evenly sized wallets of, say, $1M each.