$500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen From User

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Submitted by olsmeister on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @09:26PM

olsmeister writes "A Bitcoin user allegedly has had $500,000 worth of Bitcoins stolen from him. A hacker supposedly gained access to the user's home computer and managed to get the user's wallet.dat file, which contained the cryptographic keys that allowed him to drain the user's balance."
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