Today Bitomat, Poland-based third largest Bitcoin exchange, announced that as of July 26 they lost access to their wallet.dat file and thus the exchange’s entire fund base has become inaccessible. The ...

News is circulating the Internet right now that a serious bug has been discovered in the newly minted “encrypt wallet” functionality of the official client for Bitcoin versions 0.4 and 0.5. The ...

Turns out, going after someone’s Bitcoin transactions is much easier than you might think. After all, as the saying goes, once you’re pwned, you’re pwned. After Hacking Team, the Italian spyware ...

A pair of Trojans are targeting the Bitcoin digital currency, according to two security companies. The Trojans — InfoStealer.Coinbit and CoinBit.A — attempt to steal the wallet.dat file that holds the ...

Recently leaked Mt. Gox data archive contains a malicious application that steals Bitcoin wallet files, a researcher from Kaspersky Lab said An archive containing transaction records from Mt. Gox that ...

Bitcoin Core developers warned users on Monday of a wallet migration bug in versions 30.0 and 30.1 that can delete files and result in fund loss. The issue occurs under specific conditions and affects ...

Old western cowboys beware, this heist didn’t happen with a stagecoach at gunpoint, it’s a new era out there. A user, going by the username allinvain reports he had 25,000 Bitcoins (BTC) stolen when ...

Back in 2011 I mined for a about six weeks. Until my wife couldn't deal with the noise my AMD 6970 was putting out. I didn't back up the wallet and ultimately formatted the drive. Oh well. Bitcoin was ...

A migration flaw affecting older wallet setups can wipe local wallet files under specific conditions, prompting developers to pull recent releases. Bitcoin Core developers warned users on Monday of a ...