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How can a hacker attack this address? There is no other information. There's only address information and bitcoin amount.

This is actually very easy.

1) buy a pretty good quality computer.
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Vanitygen guesses millions of times per second. With enough seconds, it is not impossible.

Lol I love your word soon...
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So yeah if several thousand of years is soon for you, sure start it now Wink

I said you have to buy a 'good quality computer'.
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Yes. You said "good quality computer."

You also said "millions of times per second."

It is reasonable to assume that millions of times per second means less than 1,000,000,000 per second.

If you can guess 1,000,000,000 per second:

It will take you less than 1 second to try 2²⁹ keys.
It will take you less than 1 minute to try 2³⁵ keys.
It will take you less than 1 hour to try 2⁴¹ keys.
It will take you less than 1 day to try 2⁴⁶ keys.
It will take you less than 1 week to try 2⁴⁹ keys.
It will take you less than 1 month to try 2⁵² keys.
It will take you less than 1 year to try 2⁵⁴ keys.
It will take you less than 1 decade to try 2⁵⁸ keys.
It will take you less than 1 century to try 2⁶¹ keys.
It will take you less than 1 millennium to try 2⁶⁴ keys.
It will take you less than 10 billion years to try 2⁸⁸ keys.
It will take you MORE THAN 13.2 BILLION YEARS to try 2⁸⁹ keys.

The universe is estimated to only be 13.2 billion years old right now.

So if you started at the big bang, and continuously generated 1 billion addresses per second, right now you still wouldn't have generated even one billionth of one percent of all the possible addresses. Odds are nearly certain that you still wouldn't have found the private key for the address you started with.

Don't forget about luck. It would be 13.2 billion years if in the very last second of that 13.2 billion years and you happened across the correct private key. In reality, you would come across it sometime sooner, right?

Side thought, what is stopping people from importing random bitcoin private keys at a mass rate. With the growing number of users and addresses used, at some point they would get lucky with that too, right?

there are already several people that made a script to do this.. the way the system works there is really nothing stopping someone from generating the same address someone else already has.