Luke Dashjr, one of the original founding creators of Bitcoin and also a Bitcoin Core Developer, <a href="https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609613748364509184?" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">claimed</a> that a hack that happened right before the new year cost him essentially all of his <a href="https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/btc-com-parent-bit-mining-hacked-3-million-in-assets-taken">BTC</a>.
<h2>Bitcoin Core Developer Suffers Bitcoin Hack</h2>
The developer claimed in a tweet on January 1 that the suspected hackers had acquired access to his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) key, a popular security technique that employs two keys to access encrypted data. He did not disclose the complete amount of his stolen <a href="https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/quadrigacx-1-7-million-bitcoins-reignites-after-years-of-hibernation">Bitcoins</a> in the conversation, but he did give a wallet address where part of them had been sent.

https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609613748364509184?

The wallet address in issue now displays four payments between 2:08 and 2:16 UTC on December 31, totaling 216.93 BTC, or $3.6 million at the time of publication. Dashjr claimed to have "no clue" how the intruders got their hands on his key, but other members of the community have suggested a relation with a previous <a href="https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1593227756841578496?">tweet</a> from Dashjr on November 17 in which he stated that his server had been infected by new backdoors on the platform.

https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1593227756841578496?
<h2>CZ Binance Expresses Concerns Over Breach</h2>
<a href="https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/3commas-ceo-acknowledges-api-key-breach-following-cz-alert">Changpeng "CZ" Zhao</a>, CEO of <a href="https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/binance-expands-crypto-payment-options-with-apple-pay-and-google-pay">Binance</a>, also took notice of the tragedy and expressed his sympathy and support in a post on January 1. In a Reddit discussion from January 1, a user going by the name SatStandard said that Dashjr might not have taken the security flaw of November 17 extremely sufficient and subsequently claimed that the Bitcoin developer did not maintain distinct operations isolated. The PC he used for everything else included Hot Wallet. He seemed to have been quite smug.

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1609663902610034691

Others, though, seem to imply that it wasn't a breach at all and that the seed word was either accidentally discovered or involved in a "boating mishap" just in time for tax season.

Bitcoin Core Developer Alleges to Have Lost Over 200 Bitcoin in Hack

Luke Dashjr, a Bitcoin Core Developer, claimed that a hack that happened right before the new year cost him "essentially" all of his BTC.

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Bitcoin Core Developer Alleges to Have Lost Over 200 Bitcoin in Hack

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