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		grimlck on Oct 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox.com hacked? I wonder how many people are foolish enough to store their bitcoin wallets on dropbox, and if the hacker has already preemptively removed the funds from those wallets.

LeoPanthera on Oct 14, 2014 [–]

(Most) bitcoin wallets store the private keys encrypted, so even if you could steal them, they wouldn't do you any good unless the password was very simple.

newbrict on Oct 14, 2014 | [–]

I put a money back guarantee that half of the users who do encrypt with a passphrase use the same password that logs into their dropbox account... ha

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