June 2011:



- One user loses everything overnight
- 25,000 BTC disappear
- About $500,000 at that time
- Over $2.4 billion at current prices

The Victim:

A Bitcointalk user known as "Allinvain," one of the early Bitcoin miners

The theft occurred on June 13, 2011

The Main Transaction:

- Hundreds of UTXOs were consolidated
- The wallet was drained all at once

Destination Address:

1KPTdMb6p7H3YCwsyFqrEmKGmsHqe1Q3jg

How it happened:

- Slush Pool account was hacked
- The payout address was changed
- Credentials had already been leaked

Then the real mistake:

- wallet.dat stored unencrypted
- Running on Windows
- Mining software from multiple sources

The private keys were literally copied and 25,000 BTC were transferred in seconds

Hours later, the post appeared on Bitcointalk

Allinvain woke up to find his balance at zero

What followed:

- More BTC was sent to the same address
- Total received: 25,033 BTC
- Funds were split and transferred slowly

Today:

- Almost everything has been spent
- Only 0.004 ‎#BTC remains

The attacker was never found
BTC4,25%
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