Mt gox 2014 incident

[robertcarlyle]

When 850000 bitcoins were stolen on mt gox back in 2014, who was the true mastermind behind such breach?  Were all 850000 bitcoins fully recovered?  Why cant hackers today steal this much bitcoin like in this incident?  How was someone able to steal this much bitcoin back then but not today? 

[Stalker22]

When 850000 bitcoins were stolen on mt gox back in 2014, who was the true mastermind behind such breach? 

The true masterminds were Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner, two Russian nationals.  In 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice officially unsealed indictments against them. 
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/russian-nationals-charged-hacking-one-cryptocurrency-exchange-and-illicitly-operating-another

Were all 850000 bitcoins fully recovered? 

No.  The vast majority of the stolen Bitcoin is gone forever or liquidated a long time ago.

[robertcarlyle]

Then how were they able to steal this much bitcoin and other hackers havent been able to steal 850000 bitcoins like these guys?

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

When 850000 bitcoins were stolen on mt gox back in 2014, who was the true mastermind behind such breach?  Were all 850000 bitcoins fully recovered?  Why cant hackers today steal this much bitcoin like in this incident?  How was someone able to steal this much bitcoin back then but not today? 

Yes, I could remember coming across a news many years ago after an investigation was done that over 200,000 Bitcoin was recovered from the lost 850,000 Bitcoin worth $450million at that time in 2014 that was reported to have been hacked from My.gox exchange. And according to reports, we were made to understand that there are some factors which might have gave room to the successful hacking of the Mt.gox exchange back then in 2014, such as internal mismanagement by its staff and also long term security breaches which they neglected back then. And been one of the earliest crypto exchange, I'm 100% that our present crypto exchange have learnt from the mistake my.gox did 12years ago.

[PrivacyG]

Then how were they able to steal this much bitcoin and other hackers havent been able to steal 850000 bitcoins like these guys?

850 thousand Bitcoin were not worth as much as it would be worth today.  So that means anyone who got scammed in 2014 had a Bitcoin loss much larger than average losses today.

Anyway.  There are many hacks that happened after Mt Gox.  It does not directly involve Bitcoin however.  All of them are caused by other Third Parties.  Bitcoin is as secure as ever.

[robertcarlyle]

But how could hackers steal that much bitcoin back then but not today like mt gox 2014?  Arent hackers employing better hacking techniques today than in 2014?  What about the lubian hack?  Why couldnt the mt gox hackers launder all 850k bitcoins? 

[BitMaxz]

But how could hackers steal that much bitcoin back then but not today like mt gox 2014?  Arent hackers employing better hacking techniques today than in 2014?  What about the lubian hack?  Why couldnt the mt gox hackers launder all 850k bitcoins?  

Well, before, most exchanges, like Mt. Gox, had weak security protocols, and unlike today, most exchanges right now are using multisig wallets and have separate wallets, just like what Binance did before where the hack happened and only a portion was hacked around 2019 and 2022, but still, they are still alive because of having multiple multisig wallets.


There's a technical explanation about this how hacked happen on Mt. Gox before read more from this link below

- https://jimmysong.medium.com/mt-gox-hack-technical-explanation-37ea5549f715

[robertcarlyle]

But can we rule out the possibility that future hackers could pull off a massive bitcoin heist in the distant future??

[X-ray]

But can we rule out the possibility that future hackers could pull off a massive bitcoin heist in the distant future??

Future hackers focused on altcoin, recent biggest heist was Bybit and 1 billion is stolen because forged signing UI by the hackers. Why? because altcoin is less secure and complex which means more surface attack. However, it doesn't clear the fact that there might be some exchange who get hacked and get their bitcoin stolen in the future if they don't invest into security enough.

But how could hackers steal that much bitcoin back then but not today like mt gox 2014?  Arent hackers employing better hacking techniques today than in 2014?  What about the lubian hack?  Why couldnt the mt gox hackers launder all 850k bitcoins?  

Security wasn't as strong as today, so they could pull off such massive heist. Right now everybody is tightening their security through various security layer.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

But can we rule out the possibility that future hackers could pull off a massive bitcoin heist in the distant future??

We cannot actually write off such possibilities, but most exchanges have gotten wiser now, they leave only few BTC in their hot wallets and preserve a greater portion of the coins in their cold storage multi-signature wallets, so the possibility of such a heist is greatly reduced since social engineering only targets hot devices. Most exchanges learned from the mt. Gox experience and tightened their own security, although we still had recent hacks, but they're all tied to hot wallets and not cold wallets.

[Doan9269]

When 850000 bitcoins were stolen on mt gox back in 2014, who was the true mastermind behind such breach?  Were all 850000 bitcoins fully recovered?  Why cant hackers today steal this much bitcoin like in this incident?  How was someone able to steal this much bitcoin back then but not today? 

How do we know the mastermind behind all this, than what the media says, which you can easily check online by yourself to know about the incident.

Bitcoin value as at then wasn't the same today, most of us were not even probably into bitcoin before then, I don't think any scam related experience has full recovery of the coins that were lost, while government in most cases take seizure of some of those that were being recovered, the only best thing to do is for us to avoid anything that could lead to losing our assets when we make use of a custodian stoage, not your keys not your coins try as much as possible to make use of a non-custodial wallet.