{"id":11086,"date":"2026-03-04T02:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/they-seized-4-8m-in-crypto-then-gave-the-master-key-to-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:03:25","slug":"they-seized-4-8m-in-crypto-then-gave-the-master-key-to-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/they-seized-4-8m-in-crypto-then-gave-the-master-key-to-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"They seized $4.8m in crypto\u2026 then gave the master key to the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    They seized $4.8m in crypto\u2026 then gave the master key to the internet<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>South Korea&#8217;s National Tax Service (NTS) has found itself in the middle of a deeply embarrassing &#8211; and costly &#8211; blunder after accidentally handing thieves the master key to a seized cryptocurrency wallet.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/they-seized-4-8m-in-crypto-then-gave-the-master-key-to-the-internet\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They seized $4.8m in crypto\u2026 then gave the master key to the internet South Korea&#8217;s National Tax Service (NTS) has found itself in the middle of a deeply embarrassing &#8211; and costly &#8211; blunder after accidentally handing thieves the master key to a seized cryptocurrency wallet. Read more in my article on the Hot for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,412,54,155,164,1265,1267],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-11086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","category-encryption","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-ledger","category-wallet","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}