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The biggest heist of all time involved over $14 billion of crypto being stolen - and it went undetected for five years

  • Efosa Udinmwen--TechRadar
  • published date: 2025-08-09 18:36:00 UTC

A five-year-old breach of LuBian mining pool led to a silent $14.5 billion Bitcoin theft caused by weak key security and zero detection.

<ul><li>LuBian’s weak encryption gave a hacker complete access to 127,000 Bitcoins without alert</li><li>A gaming PC and time were all the hacker needed to breach crypto's “safest” platform</li><li>O… [+2922 chars]