Hackers Target Bitcoin Wallets Worth Billions Stolen from Mt. Gox

PANews reported on July 9 that according to Decrypt, hackers have targeted an old Bitcoin address (starting with 1FeexV) that contains digital currencies worth more than $8 billion stolen from the closed Mt.Gox exchange. According to BitMEX Research, the attacker sent a transaction containing a phishing website link to the address through Bitcoin's OP_RETURN function. Although OP_RETURN can store information on the blockchain, it is used to embed malicious text to trick the owner into visiting a fake page. The page falsely claims that the wallet is "lost or abandoned" and impersonates the closed Wall Street investment bank Salomon Brothers to try to obtain the owner's personal information. BitMEX warned on the X platform that this website is illegal and is part of a Bitcoin scam, and that several old addresses from 2011 have become targets of similar attacks.

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