Quote from: tread93 on Today at 02:39:45 AM

Recently I was visiting one of my friends who writes code, he brought up this topic to me recently saying that it seems like old wallets are being hacked into, that hackers have targeted older BTC addresses because of their vulnerabilities and lack of security.

I thought that was very interesting and since he is a tech savvy coder his use of relevant jargon and explanation was so good, I just wish I remembered exactly how he put it. I did a quick search though and found this relevant article: https://cryptoslate.com/old-wallets-activate-sparking-fears-of-mass-hack-targeting-bitcoin-veterans/

Could it be that folks have figured out how to crack the codes on these old private keys? IF so, they are seeing some massive pay days, EH?

If bruteforcing Bitcoins privatekeys is indeed possible then for sure people would really be flocking away into other altcoins in the market considering that security is really at risks or something have the issue.
Just like on what others been saying on here that it cant really be that possible that those old wallets could really be hacked. If ever those coins become active once again and made out some
transactions then there's only two things in my mind;

1. Owners had recently found out their keys after a long time of searching
2. Owners had decided for them to snip out some funds or profits on their wallets for a very long time.

I dont really believe that being hacked would really be the case on here on which it is really that something impossible on bruteforcing it out or breaking its security.
Finding a single privatekey on a certain address is impossible.