Hacker Stole 200+ Bitcoin from Electrum Bitcoin Wallet. Hacker added several malicious servers to Electrums network to acquire users bitcoin. If an initiated bitcoin transaction reached one of these servers, it would respond with an error message prompting the user to follow a GitHub link to download an update. After download, the updated app would request a two-factor authentication code, which, if provided would allow the malicious software to transfer the user’s funds into the attacker’s Bitcoin addresses. The hack began on December 21 and has been temporarily halted by GitHub administrators.”]
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