Bitcoin Inventor’s GMX Email Hacked: Here’s the Key Point!
The identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto remains a mystery. Although some claim to be Nakamoto, they have not been able to prove their claims. The latest report shared details of a Satoshi’s email hack 10 years ago. It also gave interesting details about this hack.
Critical point: Bitcoin inventor’s GMX email account hack
The BitMEX team recently published a report. In this context, it shared new details about Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto’s accounts in 2014. One of them was the mysterious Bitcoin founder’s GMX email account. The incident occurred on September 8th of that year. The report revealed emails exchanged between the hacker and former Bitcoin developer Gregory Maxwell.
The BitMEX team tried to reconstruct how the hacker(s) carried out their criminal acts. They also explained what they found when they logged into Satoshi’s hacked account in 2014. According to the report, hackers compromised three of Satoshi’s accounts that year. The GMX account was only one of them. The other two were Satoshi’s account on the P2P Foundation forum and his account on the Sourceforge platform. The hack of his email box seems to be the most important of the three. Importantly, according to the report, there were very few early Bitcoin-related emails there and it was mostly filled with spam.
Was Satoshi Nakamoto’s life in danger?
The BitMEX team believes that Satoshi may have deleted these emails in 2010. Cryptocoin.comAs you may recall, the Bitcoin inventor said goodbye to the BTC community in 2010. Satoshi left the Bitcoin code in the hands of a few developers and disappeared from the public domain. Theymos, the administrator of the Bitcoin Talk forum, was the first to notice the attack. He spread the news that Satoshi’s e-mail account might have been hacked. Because a request for some BTC came from this mailbox: “Michael, send me some money before I shoot you.”
This was followed by a message posted on the P2P Foundation forum from Satoshi’s account, which clearly did not belong to Nakamoto. The message was addressed to the real Satoshi and stated that “dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet” and therefore his location may be known to hackers. The sender of this message urged Satoshi to flee his location. Accordingly, “You are not safe. You need to get out of here as soon as possible before these people hurt you. Thank you for inventing Bitcoin.” These messages raised many questions on the forums. It became a heated debate about Satoshi and what might have happened to him.