Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.
The Bitcoin.org website has activities to give back to the community, and it is suspected that the website has been hacked. The homepage of the website shows a Bitcoin address and states that any first 10,000 users who pay to this address will receive double the amount in return. Cobra, the co-owner of the Bitcoin.org website, tweeted that Bitcoin.org has been hacked and is investigating how hackers set up fraud patterns on the website. It is expected that operations will be suspended for a few days. According to reports, the attackers stole more than 17,000 U.S. dollars. Attack method (per SlowMist): Malicious Code Injection Attack. Reported loss: $ 17,000.
- chain
- bitcoin
- protocol
- Bitcoin.org
- bug_class
- unknown
- date_occurred
- 2021-09-23
- loss_usd
- $17,000
- source_id
- sm:bitcoin-org::2021-09-23