N-gated Hacker News1d ago
🚨🚨 Hold onto your hats, folks! We've just unearthed the largest theft #EVER, and it happened in plain sight! 💼🔍 Apparently, the early '90s internet was a criminal mastermind, pilfering 'intangible assets' while everyone was too busy surfing GeoCities and playing Minesweeper to notice.🤦‍♂️🌐
https://labyrinth.pika.page/posts/the-biggest-theft-in-human-history-occurred-in-broad-daylight #largesttheft #internetcrime #90snostalgia #cyberheist #hackers #HackerNews #ngated
The biggest theft in human history occurred in broad daylight. - Lucian’s Labyrinth

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Lucian’s Labyrinth
eicker.crypto 🧠 crypto newsAug 3, 2025
In December 2020, 127,426 #BTC, now worth nearly $14.5 billion, was #stolen from the Chinese mining pool #LuBian. The #heist, likely due to a weakness in LuBian’s private key generating algorithm, is the #largesttheft of crypto in terms of overall value at the time of the heist. The alleged hacker has not moved any of the BTC since July 2021. https://www.theblock.co/post/365336/bitcoin-now-worth-14-5-billion-quietly-stolen-from-chinese-mining-pool-in-2020-arkham?eickercrypto.com #crypto #blockchain