HN's Public Hack-Me Wallet Goes Unstolen as Bystanders Top It Up to $2,000
mariofilhoml · x · 2026-10-25
A developer put a bitcoin wallet on a PHP server publicly declared vulnerable to PHP2Shell and invited Hacker News to steal it. Hours later there was no confirmed theft — instead bystanders topped the wallet up from $500 to $2,000. Either the "AI hacks everything" panic is overblown, or $2k isn't worth burning an exploit.
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