The US officials announced that they had simply and easily recovered $3.6 billion of the bitcoin. These were stolen in the year 2016. Throwing some kind of the light on such scams which had surrounded the crypto currency. Now the question is that how do criminals steal them in virtual world?
Hacking of virtual crypto exchanges
Bitcoin along with different currencies are purchased, sold as well as stored on the exchanges. Just similar to other commodities in this non-virtual world.
However, the crypto investors, and one who easily organize exchanges, usually object for the centralized control along with the reject of the stringent oversight. It at times also leads to the lax security.
There are various Exchange sites that have stocks which are quite much relatively large at specific given time in the crypto. However, these are machines and servers along with the malicious people those at times helps to manage to get in their servers. This is when they are able to steal money on crypto virtual exchange.
Usually, such kind of hacking problem is mainly caused by the weak security. They also point out that there are few platforms which simply store passwords on their servers.
When you get in the server you will be able to steal the passwords. When you have passwords, you will be able to move bitcoins from single address to some other address and people does not have access to such bitcoins and crypto.
Hacking of blockchain
All such crypto simply rely on blockchain — the chain of the code which is composed of the interlocking of blocks. This also stores complete details of transactions made in the crypto currency.
As such block gets linked, it is quite impossible to simply change the block of the code devoid of altering whole chain. The basis of security claims also made by such that also trumpet advantages of crypto.
