{"id":13737,"date":"2019-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/2019\/04\/24\/ethereum-a-hacker-steals-eth-worth-7-8-million-by-successfully-calculating-weak-private-keys\/"},"modified":"2019-04-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T00:00:00","slug":"ethereum-a-hacker-steals-eth-worth-7-8-million-by-successfully-calculating-weak-private-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/ethereum-a-hacker-steals-eth-worth-7-8-million-by-successfully-calculating-weak-private-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum: A hacker steals ETH worth $ 7.8 million by successfully calculating weak private keys"},"content":{"rendered":"
An unknown thief, dubbed as the “Blockchain Bandit\u2019\u2019,<\/strong> has managed to guess his way through weak private keys<\/a><\/strong>, walking away with close to 45,000 Ethereum<\/a> <\/strong>(ETH) coins. According to a news site the hacker was accidentally discovered by Adrian Bednarek, a senior security analyst working with Independent Security Evaluators.<\/p>\n