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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 16, 2011 @08:53AM from the good-luck-with-that dept.

olsmeister writes "A Bitcoin user allegedly has had $500,000 worth of Bitcoins stolen from him. A hacker supposedly gained access to the user's home computer and managed to get the user's wallet.dat file, which contained the cryptographic keys that allowed him to drain the user's balance."

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Re:Anonymous payments (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 16, 2011 @08:55AM (#36461530)

Bitcoins are not anonymous.

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So perfect (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 16, 2011 @08:56AM (#36461546)

The guy's handle is 'allinvain'. You couldn't make this stuff up.

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Re:Brilliant... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 16, 2011 @08:58AM (#36461562)

What type of MORON keeps a balance of $500,000 in BTC?
What type of MORON keeps a balance of more than $0 in BTC?

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I'd imagine reporting it to police went like... (Score:5, Funny)

by Sneeze1066 ( 1574313 ) writes: on Thursday June 16, 2011 @08:58AM (#36461564)

Victim - "I've had the my wallet stolen officer"
Officer - "Okay can you describe the wallet to me?"
Victim - "It was about 58KB and ended in .DAT"
Officer - "Errrrr......so was it leather?"

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Re:I'd imagine reporting it to police went like... (Score:5, Funny)

by PenquinCoder ( 1431871 ) writes: on Thursday June 16, 2011 @09:00AM (#36461584) Homepage

Officer - Listen here meow, we don't have time to be playing these games...

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I had it even worse (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 16, 2011 @09:01AM (#36461590)

I lost $750,000 in Beenz.

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Re:Who cares (Score:5, Funny)

by gilleain ( 1310105 ) writes: on Thursday June 16, 2011 @09:05AM (#36461628)

Maybe I give people too much credit...
So long as that credit is not in Bitcoin, it's probably okay.

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Re:Who cares (Score:5, Funny)

by Kenja ( 541830 ) writes: on Thursday June 16, 2011 @09:29AM (#36461904)

It has to do with the US dollar being backed by the US GNP and Bitcoin being backed by the equivalent of pink elephants.

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