Luke Dashjr

Private Key Leakage

Estimated loss

—

VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE

Root cause is private-key / signer compromise — the on-chain contract behaved exactly as written. No pre-deployment source audit or bytecode review reaches the key-custody perimeter; this is operational-security territory (HSM/MPC hygiene, key rotation, hot-wallet isolation). Bytecode would show nothing wrong.

▰ METHOD

PRIVATE KEY

PRIVATE-KEY

Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

Forensic narrative

Luke Dashjr, one of the original Bitcoin Core developers, claimed on Twitter that attackers had managed to compromise multiple wallets, with more than 216 BTC (approximately $3.6 million) stolen. Dashjr initially blamed the attack on a leaked PGP key, but later said the PGP leak was just part of a broader hack in which the attacker also bypassed two-factor authentication and gained access to his wallet. Attack method (per SlowMist): Private Key Leakage. Reported loss: 216 BTC.

Primary source

https://www.theblock.co/post/198688/bitcoin-developer-pgp-exploit ↗

Sourced from

slowmist

Technical record