Few months after the FBI Silk Road closes, Silk Road 2 reappeared as we had posted In November. The news is that today the manager of the famous drug market announced that all reserves in Bitcoins of the website have been stolen following a breach of their systems. Good;
According to the complaint filed by a site administrator, they lost “about two or three million dollars worth of Bitcoins” from attack.
According to the administrator, the Bitcoins changed hands when the hackers managed to take advantage of a window - a security gap - of the transactions and withdrew all the funds.
"The attack happened at the worst possible time. We were planning on re-developing a trading system last weekend," said Mr Defcon administrator of the illegal website.
The same exploit χρησιμοποιήθηκε και στο MtGox την περασμένη εβδομάδα, τη μεγαλύτερη αγορά συναλλάγματος Bitcoin του κόσμου. Το theme αυτό οδήγησε, στην αναστολή κάθε είδους ανάληψης κεφαλαίων, κάτι που οδήγησε στην κάθετη drop of the price of Bitcoin.
Forbes says that Nicholas Weaver, a researcher at the International Institute of Computer Science, estimates that the total value of the theft on Silk Road is about 4.400 Bitcoins, or over 2,5 million dollars.
Its users Silk Road of course, are upset and do not believe Defcon's statements, as many of them have called for something to happen with this potential vulnerability in the past week.
