A surge in Bitcoin prices this year, caused a rise in thefts related to bitcoin. Police in Henan province in Central China failed to disclose the theft of bitcoins over the weekend.
Professional investor told the government this summer that he lost about 3.4 million yuan (about us $520 000) in bitcoin that was stolen from his electronic wallet, which he used through an app on your phone. This application he was advised by a user in a bitcoin group in WeChat.
The Creator of the group in WeChat advertised application for e-wallet, arguing that this is a safe place to store bitcoins. A few days later trader found that his millions in BTC disappeared from her purse. On the question of what happened, the Creator of the page in WeChat unexpectedly offered him a partial compensation for their losses, stating that he feels guilty that he recommended this app.
This "altruistic" impulse alerted the police. After a thorough inspection by a Creator of a group in WeChat was discovered 27 Bank cards and several mobile phones. The police said that the suspect owns a software for hacking accounts. This software rewrites the source code of the application, with the help of which he got user names and passwords. He also forwarded the stolen bitcoins through hundreds of e-wallets to difficult to track and are not sold at competitive prices on the trading floors.
Police managed to recover only about one-tenth of the approximately 200 million yuan in bitcoin was stolen by the suspect.
created by:Maxim Centurion | 26 Dec 2017 11:33