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Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes
(cointelegraph.com)
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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
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If it was a script I wrote, it would have successfully stolen the $40k, but also stolen my own money and deposit both sets of money into a second intended victims account because I forgot to clear a variable before the main loop runs again.
You always mess up some mundane detail!
It would have deposited the funds in an account "foobar123" and been lost forever
Might have happened in this case too, you never know.