The main defendant in the Indian Bitcoin scam claims to have hacked the Bitfinex exchange twice.

On November 12, Srikrishna Ramesh (Sriki), the main defendant in the huge Bitcoin scandal in Karnataka, India, told police he was the first person to break into the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange. . Make a trade. He described how he broke into the exchange twice. “Bitfinex was my first major Bitcoin exchange hack. The exchange was hacked twice and I was hacked the first time. The second was a simple spear phishing attack where two Israeli hackers working in the military had access to a computer. our staff 'AWS cloud accounts. "The main defendant explained how he had accessed the Bitfinex platform:" We used bugs in our database that allow us to access our servers on a Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM). I restarted the server, entered GRUB mode, reset the root. password, then logged in and restarted deleting. Login to server password and bypass bitcoins at my bitcoin address. "(CoinGape)