
Bitcoin cold wallets drained of $70M via weak seed generation
Galaxy Research says an attacker recreated private keys offline and swept over 1,000 BTC from nearly 1,200 wallets.
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Galaxy Research says an attacker recreated private keys offline and swept over 1,000 BTC from nearly 1,200 wallets.

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