Cracking bitcoin wallets?

[pooya87]

T[]his wallet was probably hacked some days ago https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx

the coins were mot probably moved by the original owner of this key. now the internet is going nuts just because they crave for drama in bitcoin world specially when the price is going up they seek "scary" news so the media gives it to them!

[PrimeNumber7]

T[]his wallet was probably hacked some days ago https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx

the coins were mot probably moved by the original owner of this key. now the internet is going nuts just because they crave for drama in bitcoin world specially when the price is going up they seek "scary" news so the media gives it to them!

There was a transaction out of the above address, 0d13a52e3b640d05cdf31b41f335b327f126cb79d9eec1e2bc46556ef30a0b57 that sent 1 bitcoin to an address, bc1qa5wkgaew2dkv56kfvj49j0av5nml45x9ek9hz6 with change going to the 'sending address' and several blocks later sent the change to the same address. I think it is a reasonable conclusion that the owner of sent 1 bitcoin to bc1qa5wk, ran some tests to confirm they control the private key to bc1qa5wk, and that the transaction was sent to the correct address, and once confirmed, sent the remaining amount to the bc1qa5wk address. I would be especially surprised if 1HQ3Go3 is compromised.

[odolvlobo]

This wallet was probably hacked some days ago https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbh
1 000 000 000 USD !!!!  

It wasn't hacked.

23. On November 3, 2020, Individual X signed a Consent and Agreement to Forfeiture with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California. In that agreement, Individual X, consented to
the forfeiture of the Defendant Property to the United States government.

24. On November 3, 2020, the United States took custody of the Defendant Property from 1HQ3.

[gmaxwell]

I'm getting really tired of the forum being flooded by idiots attempting to crack wallets.

AFAICT whats going on right now is that scammers are selling fake wallets which are just encrypted wallets with other people's addresses listed in them for people to crack if only they can guess the password, but they don't actually contain the private keys so cracking the password would accomplish nothing (and the password is probably just some huge random string so it can never be cracked in any case).  If a fake wallet is well constructed it is impossible to distinguish it from a real encrypted wallet.

This isn't new, but at least one of them has put up a highly polished website now.  They're also going around and claiming that whenever coins were moved that they connected to these wallets (which happens from time to time because they're someone elses coins) that this was a successful hack by one of their customers.

I don't really have a problem with the meta-scammers ripping people off who are stupid enough to pay for other people's wallets to crack--  back when wallet encryption was new I, myself, put up a bunch of fake wallets on edonkey to look like they were accidentally shared so that malicious pieces of shit would waste their time on impossible to crack wallets.  Presumably charging for them makes the crooks all the more convinced that they are real ... but unfortunately this is creating a constant stream of querulous idiots making uninteresting posts, because the people ignorant enough to fall for this stuff also don't actually have anything interesting to say about wallet security.