A 36-year-old man, whose identity remains unknown, was robbed of more than 100,000 euros of Bitcoins, while he had connected to the public Wi-Fi network of a restaurant, located in Vienna, in Austria.
According to
CBSNews, however, the Austrian police would seek to determine whether the victim's account had not been hacked before he used the Wi-Fi network provided by the restaurant.
This theft opens the question of securing cryptocurrency portfolios. While the number of people holding a Bitcoin wallet seems to increase each month, it is necessary for them to follow some good security practices.
The victim would probably have had to create a second wallet dedicated to her daily purchases - she should have avoided using a public Wi-Fi network to access a wallet containing several Bitcoins.
Trading platforms targeted
It was in February 2014 that we had witnessed the most important Bitcoin theft. The Mt. Gox trading platform collapsed following the exploitation of a security breach by hackers - nearly 750,000 bitcoins were stolen.
Marc KapelèsThe trial of his former CEO, the French Mark Karpelès, is currently taking place in Japan. The man is accused of data manipulation and embezzlement. However, it could soon recover nearly $ 1 billion, thanks to the strong appreciation of the Bitcoin price.
In mid-2017, the main South Korean cryptocurrency trading platform, Bithumb, was the target of a hacker attack, which managed to steal the equivalent of 930,000 euros.
But that's not much of what happened to stealing an individual from Pennsylvania. The man recently confessed to stealing the equivalent of $ 40 million in Bitcoin, thanks to the creation of malicious software.
Crypto-currencies whose price continues to grow
All these risks do not seem to slow down the rise in crypto-currencies.
The price of Ether, the currency used on the Ethereum network, has increased by 2600% in just a few months: the currency was worth less than $ 8 at the beginning of 2017, and recently exceeded for the first time the threshold of $ 400.
Bitcoin has grown more than 700% since the beginning of the year, from less than $ 1,000 to more than $ 8,000 today.
The price of Bitcoin reached a new record high at $ 8,339 on Tuesday, just after a drop to nearly $ 7800 caused by the announcement of theft of nearly $ 31 million Tethers (USDT).
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