Quote from: nc50lc on June 01, 2018, 07:28:59 AM

Quote from: Kakmakr on June 01, 2018, 06:46:20 AM

Why are people still doing this, if the probability of finding a private key that is used, is almost zero?
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Yup, by brute-forcing the key, the chance to hit a collision is close to 0.0000000000000000000000000000001%. Wait,

No, what they talking about (in this thread) are those neglectfully stored wallet.dat files, private key backups, paper wallet images or other forms of backups which potentially have funds.
History can tell that some people are stupid enough to store those (not only wallets but passwords and sensitive info too) directly in the internet without "hiding" the files with a disguised file name, file type, etc.

This one for example:

Quote from: robolove on May 31, 2018, 06:52:51 PM

Found more than 10 wallets with a positive balance without any password protection. Not entirely sure how or why you come up with the idea to put your wallet.dat in your public Dropbox folder. Those were the days...

@OP, this isn't "hacking" and... use this to display the image (the link must be the image's direct link that ends with ".png/.gif/.jpg"):

Code:

[img alt=img height=420]https://i.imgur.com/PrBSxN8.png[/img]

Winning a big lottery also has a small chance, you will never know unless you try. The numbers do not work always like that, technically you have two options you can find one with balance or not. Why there are doing this? Because they can.