John McAfee’s Crypto Wallet Keeps Getting Hacked

[Lucian Armasu]

Bitfi removes the "unhackable" claim from its website after its cryptocurrency wallet is hacked for the second time in a span of six weeks.

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[totalinsanity4]

Wow. Sore losers, much?

 

[gggplaya]

In regards to time, how much longer in ram was it?? Like 5 minutes, like 20 minutes, like 30 days?????? Because if you steal someone's wallet, you'd need to access it and break into fairly quickly to upload your exploit to access the ram. It's generally not that realistic of an attack. Depending on how long it remains in ram.

 

[hellwig]

In regards to time, how much longer in ram was it?? Like 5 minutes, like 20 minutes, like 30 days?????? Because if you steal someone's wallet, you'd need to access it and break into fairly quickly to upload your exploit to access the ram. It's generally not that realistic of an attack. Depending on how long it remains in ram.

Depends on who you don't want accessing that data. In theory, a police officer with their handy plug-in hacking tools could steal your crypto keys and currency only seconds after taking the phone from you. Civil Asset Forfeiture is a terrible abuse of power, but until we can get those laws changed, it's not just remote people in Russia or North Korea you have to worry about stealing from you.

 

[quilciri]

John Mcafee is the Fred Durst of AV.

 

[rfague]

He ought to know better by now, nothing is unhackable no matter how much someone thinks they know about security.

 

[rantoc]

Sure its possible to make an product harder to hack but like some wise (NOT McAfee apparently) said - There is always an way in