El Salvador Bitcoin Wallet Hit by Cybercriminals, Source Code Leakedcoingape.com/el-salvador-bitcoin-wallet-hit-by-cybercriminals-source-code-leaked/
142 sats \ 9 comments \ @1GLENCoop 24 Apr bitcoin
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21 sats \ 8 replies \ @DarthCoin 24 Apr
QUI BONO? Questions that came into my mind about this:
  • What if is IMF was behind all this?
  • What if was an inside job, organized together with the masters in inside jobs "hacks", Bitfinex? To push for use of Tether instead of Bitcoin
  • What if IMF and Bitfinex (Tether) work together to demise the use of BTC?
  • What if all this with "make El Salvador the Bitcoin country" was just a well organized scam from the beginning, ending up in a huge scandal to make Bitcoin look bad?
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @ez 24 Apr
I do love a good conspiracy theory but this is probably not that - the group behind the hack has been releasing tons of data from El Salvador, including Salvadoran vehicle registrations, pregnant women and student registry lists, criminal warrant records and much more - this latest leak been the first one directly relating to the bitcoin stuff
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1 sat \ 6 replies \ @javier 24 Apr
Well, who knows. What is clear is that you can use any other open source wallet so the effect of that is not going to be very significant.
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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 24 Apr
Put yourself in the position of a clueless salvadoran. Most of them do not know about the existence of other ways to use Bitcoin other than Chivo. Is not about how to use Bitcoin with other apps, we already know that. is about leaking personal information (this is why KYC is bad) and use that against the people.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @javier 24 Apr
You are right, but do you know the statistics? I guess most of the people use Chivo just for small payments but then stack sats onchain. I know that filtering the information of people is bad, but what can they find out? The payment of coffee and bread and things like that. And what do you need the information of poor people for? Are you going to their houses to rob them? Bigger companies like Sony got much worse exposure and nothing happened to the world.
Anyway, the centralization of the Chivo wallet was something we were warning about for years. I'm sure most Salvadorenians used it for small amounts only.
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71 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 24 Apr
Again, nobody gives a shit what people buy with their sats. Is about USING those stolen identities for other stuff. What if somebody stole your KYC data and use it to post stuff or take money from a bank or much worse case scenarios, even came to your house and demand you BTC?
Identity theft is a real danger nowadays because you can do a lot of bad things with it.
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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @mo 24 Apr
using "open source" wallets does not solve the issue... as there's centralized open source out there. it must be non-custodial or at least federated, but not centralized.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @javier 24 Apr
Right, that is what I meant. Thank you.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @1GLENCoop OP 25 Apr
True. Good point.
Use open-source, non-custodial wallets.
What is an example of a federated wallet?
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