A hacker has allegedly leaked the data of around 20,000 Bitcoin wallets from Russia on the dark web. The threat actor responsible for the breach has yet to be tracked.
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The leaked data includes:
- wallet IDs,
- passwords,
- and wallet balances of the affected users.
- Some reports claim that the threat actor may have stolen or burned around $300,000 worth of cryptocurrency.
- The authenticity of the data leak has not been confirmed, and it is still unclear how the threat actor was able to pull off the hacking campaign.
- Some reports claim that the leak might have come from a data breach in a Russian Bitcoin exchange or service.
- Security researchers claim that says at least three of the allegedly Russian wallet addresses have been linked to Russia by third parties before.
- Two of them were said to be involved in the Solarwinds attack, and a third paid for servers used in Russia's 2016 election disinformation campaign.