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BlackWallet DNS hijacking: $400.00K Reported Loss

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Incident Overview

User orbit84 posted on Reddit that a hacker entered his hosting provider account and changed the DNS settings to his own hosted version of BlackWallet. The attacker's wallet seems to have accumulated about $400,000 worth of cryptocurrency, and its market value has almost tripled in the past month. In a statement, the founder of BlackWallet claimed that the open source online "star wallet" BlackWallet had been hacked.

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