These are terrible news. Was his PGP hacked and the keys found there? Weren't his keys stored offline? I think it's better to rely on a good and old notebook than on any digital devices...

I hope he can track the hacker's addresses and reach authorities faster as possible to get them before the coins are mixed and disappear forever. As I see, he has already tagged FBI on Twitter. Hopefully he will recover his coins!

In the absence of a revocation cert for the allegedly compromised PGP key, my money's on his Twitter account being hacked and posting FUD. Does Twitter even still have a security team after Ol' Musky's latest round of firings?

Nope, none to speak of Twitter is mostly on autopilot at this point.

But until we here more directly from him I would think it's his Twitter account that has been hacked.
His account logged in here last on Christmas eve. (My time)
But no posts for months.

And unless he was doing something odd, his PGP keys have nothing to do with his BTC.

I'm also guessing that he could at least pick up the phone and call someone to make a post comment here if he could not log in for some reason.

-Dave

Maybe I am wrong but I think that his Twitter is perhaps compromised and it’s not him posting. He is a smart guy. He probably has iron clad security.

Because I find it odd he would post “fbi please help” or saying his PGP is compromised which wouldn’t do anything related to his hot wallet. Only the software he signs.

Also if it’s true cold storage it’s not possible to get that stolen. I think that his Twitter is hacked due to the leak last week and he is going to post a “please send donations” tweet and that’s the payoff in this hack.

Peter Todd claims it's real: https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1609655629903265795, as does midnightmagic: https://twitter.com/midmagic/status/1609734368599347202

I've also heard from a couple of other secondhand sources that this is real, but I have not checked with luke myself.

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If they were being kept on the same machine that has been compromised, that's how.

Help with doing forensics to figure out what happened, help with recovering the funds. And just generally, probably panicking too.

He is not giving us much detail but what if this wasn’t a hack but instead someone physically broke into his house. He is claiming that they got his Bitcoin on cold storage, how else can that be stolen?

If hardware wallet or electrum was compromised then we would get more reports. Maybe some quantum computer hacked his private key but why only go for 200btc when you could go for multiplies higher.

No idea what to make of this. There is also a poll and 65% think he wasn’t really hacked.

Good lord. I usually go "meh, another careless dude" when someone gets hacked, but we're talking about Luke here — an actual OG developer; probably a hundred times more technically literate than me. This made me nervous as hell.

Yes this seems like the most possible explaination but he is saying the server didn’t store any bitcoins or have access to those bitcoins.

Reading his posts he claims that he has bars on his office windows, and has a large heavy door that he locks with the key. And he also keeps everything separate on his activity between different computers.

And reading more into this, it seems it might actually be real and freaking out how this can happen to someone with security so tight and somehow got his bitcoins stolen.

precisely on November 17, 2022 he said in his tweet that an unknown person accessed his server and a full analysis is underway.
https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1593227756841578496

But whether he continued to trace it or not, perhaps he assumed that the attack was just an ordinary attack. But in fact it currently has an impact on hacking the PGP Key it has.

A Reddit user calling himself SatStandart suggested that Dashjr not separate different activities
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/100tn95/bitcoin_core_dev_gets_more_than_200_btc_stolen/

Dashjr also informed users in his latest Twitter thread that he only became aware of the recent hack after getting emails from Coinbase and Kraken about login attempts.

CZ as The CEO of Binance also expressed his concern via Twitter at the hacking incident experienced by Luke Dashjr.
https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1609663902610034691

LukeDashjr, as the core developer of Bitcoin Core, can be hacked, especially for those of us who are nobody, of course it's easier to hack. But this is also due to weak security levels and needing updates and not being careless and taking every attack seriously.

Maybe so, but I trust crypto, not secondhand sources. Wake me up when the PGP key's revoked.