Website Dares Hackers to Steal Bitcoin as the Clock Keeps Ticking

A website is practically begging hackers to steal $2,000 in bitcoin, yet nobody has collected the prize. Now, an independent examination suggests the supposedly vulnerable challenge might be impossible to crack, raising an awkward question: Is the game rigged? Welcome to Steal My Bitcoin, where cybersecurity’s usual rules have been turned upside down. Instead of keeping hackers out, the website invites them inside, offers a bitcoin bounty and dares them to take it. The mission sounds ridiculously simple: Exploit a deliberately vulnerable PHP installation, retrieve a hidden Bitcoin private key and empty the wallet. First successful hacker takes the money. The prize started around $500 before donations pushed it toward $2,000, approximately 0.025 BTC. As of late Oct.

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