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You get forced to give it up by certain federal entities or, as many cyber criminals are, just fucking retarded and keep it on you at your time of arrest.

You gotta realize these people are paranoid 24/7, that life is very shitty, and they make sloppy mistakes.

Makes sense.

[Chorozon]

Likely both :-P He's out of prison or someone else running it now?

Lockbitsup never went to prison
hes in the promised land.

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I don't understand how a ransomware dev crew can make billions and not get their wallets locked instead.

How would they have wallets "locked" :S LOL

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VXUnderground just updated their twitter to say that they don't think it's the real Lockbit 5 but instead an earlier build or a modified Babuk ransomware builder. If they can verify it's not the real builder, they'll release it for everyone.

Interested to see how this all plays out!

Yep false alarm not lockbit code but it was a currently active ransomware groups code that was forked from another source

Smelly probably made some shitty enemies either way :(

[Phantom_NiNja]

I think a very good idea would be to write down the private key on paper, put the paper in a waterproof box and just bury the whole thing in the ground. Like pirates did with treasure chests in the old days.

What if the utility company or an ISP comes to your house and runs wire and finds the box and throws it away?

[PremiumJoe]

What if the utility company or an ISP comes to your house and runs wire and finds the box and throws it away?

I would assign my one eyed pirate-parrot Julius to guard the spot, just like pirates did in the old days.

Yarrr 🦜🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️😄

No seriously, I guess that if I actually buried something valuable in the ground, I would be ready for such an event and dig it up quickly before someone else.