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**Features | Due to Negligence, 25,000 Bitcoins Owned by a Miner Disappeared Due to Hacking**

An early miner named Allinvain woke up to find his entire Bitcoin balance of around 25,000 BTC vanished in a single transaction on June 13, 2011. Those thousands of Bitcoins are now valued at US$2.2 billion or around IDR 36.87 trillion.

This occurred due to a fatal combination of weak security. The mining pool account lacked 2FA, had leaked credentials, and an unencrypted wallet.dat file on a Windows system with software from various sources.

As a result, the attackers managed to copy the private key and move the coins within seconds. The funds were then split and spent gradually, and the perpetrators were never caught.

This event is the darkest tragedy in the early history of Bitcoin, leaving a bitter story that remains an eternal reminder in the blockchain about the importance of digital asset security.
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