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   The biggest heist of all time involved over $14 billion of crypto being    
   stolen - and it went undetected for five years   
      
   Date:   
   Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:36:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   A five-year-old breach of LuBian mining pool led to a silent $14.5 billion   
   Bitcoin theft caused by weak key security and zero detection.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   What began as a silent infiltration into one of the worlds largest   
   cryptocurrency mining pools has now been confirmed as the biggest crypto    
   theft in history.    
      
   The LuBian mining pool, once a dominant force in the Bitcoin network, quietly   
   lost over 127,000 Bitcoins in 2020.    
      
   The breach was only uncovered in 2025 by Arkham Intelligence, revealing a   
   staggering $14.5 billion worth of stolen assets that had remained untouched   
   and undetected for half a decade.   
      
   A historic breach hidden in plain sight    
      
   The scale of this theft eclipses even the infamous Mt. Gox incidents of the   
   early 2010s, as while Mt. Gox saw a higher number of Bitcoins disappear, the   
   significantly lower value of Bitcoin at the time made the financial loss far   
   smaller in comparison.    
      
   By contrast, the LuBian hack, valued at around $3.5 billion when it occurred,   
   has since ballooned to $14.5 billion due to the rise in Bitcoin prices.    
      
   Despite the passage of time, the hacker has held onto all the stolen funds,   
   with no signs of large-scale laundering or spending.    
      
   Arkhams investigation suggests that the LuBian breach likely exploited a   
   fundamental weakness in the platforms security architecture.    
      
   Its private key generation reportedly relied on only 32 bits of entropy, a   
   dangerously low standard by cryptographic norms, and which allowed the   
   attacker to deploy brute-force attacks with nothing more than a gaming PC and   
   patience.    
      
   The implication is critical digital assets were being guarded with the    
   digital equivalent of a paper lock.    
      
   The hacker, who reportedly compromised over 5,000 wallets, used the   
   vulnerability to access and siphon nearly all of LuBians Bitcoin holdings.    
      
   The mining pool itself disappeared from the network in 2021, only a few    
   months after the theft.    
      
   LuBian had once boasted of being the safest high-yielding mining pool, a    
   claim now overshadowed by its catastrophic collapse.    
      
   This incident calls attention to the broader issue of cyber hygiene within   
   crypto infrastructure.    
      
   The use of comprehensive security suites , robust encryption methods, and   
   advanced firewall protections should be non-negotiable - yet even among   
   top-tier players, critical oversights remain alarmingly common.    
      
   The lack of transparency around the breach until 2025 also raises questions   
   about how many similar attacks may have gone unnoticed.    
      
   The hacker has now been arrested, but the LuBian case is a reminder of the   
   consequences of weak digital security.    
      
   It also shows how easily identity theft and systemic failures can converge in   
   the largely unregulated world of cryptocurrency.    
      
   Via Toms Hardware   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/the-biggest-heist-of-all-time-involved-   
   over-usd14bn-of-crypto-being-stolen-and-it-went-undetected-for-five-years   
      
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