It was BitJohn quoted on this topic before from years ago about the cold storage practices.
More than likely what he was told..
Imagine all of our surprise when we finally found out.... To not use cold storage is crazy.
Vern is the one who should be doing the explaining here.
And his hiding from this does not look very good.
Agreed though I doubt he will post ever. He was never on here prior and has no real reason to get on now culprit or not.
I think Vern was the hacker most likely and he had Mullick help him with the Lucky7coin shenanigans.
It could have played out differently but that was my first thought when I heard about the hack.
Why would Mullick be running downloaded new shitcoin binaries? When he said in the past he compiles them.
And that bit of hacked code was not in the coin on launch either..
It was a newer commit where that IRC code was added.
A lot of it doesn't seem right for the hacker story..
If Vern was infected why did he not state publicly what malware was installed on his network?
All known malware is identified by name.
And what security was he running?
Mullick regularly complained about not being able to implement things that he felt would be best practices. Many coins were compiled and launched by Paul directly not sure if that was one, but I know Mullick was pretty savy and it is really just lazy not too...
And it goes on and on..
Such as Vern claimed he did not know who to contact about it.
But BitJohn mentioned AML related requests on them..
Uhhh duh?
Any agency would redirect him to the FBI etc.
Had he made the call evidence could have been collected.. On his PC's.
On the AML note I will point out again Polo and Coinbase both have similar limits.
And as the guy said earlier.. The other exchanges could have been alerted and money frozen etc.
From what I have seen the money never made it to an exchange... Though I 100% agree that if everyone was alerted all of them would have watched and intercepted.
So yeah best i can tell Vern and maybe others also were behind it.
This one for me is easy... CEO fled the country with supposedly no money and no notice. (From what I know he left on a business trip and never returned.)
What baffles me is the money never moved.
And will it?
No sane person would delete or lose the private keys.
I contend someone is deliberately avoiding touching them but could.
Could be. Thinking about it it is notoriously watched money if it moved to any exchange it would be seized.