You are kidding right.

If old OG wallets are moved it’s because they are sending to a newer wallet with better security. Doesn’t mean they are hacked.

If it was possible they wouldn’t hack old wallets they would just try and hack satoshis wallet and then they would take a large short on the perpetual futures and make tons of money due to the panic they would cause that satoshi is selling his coins.

MtGox aside, why can't people just make the assumption that maybe, just maybe, that OG bitcoin holders just want to move their funds? Why does it always have to be something very bombastic like a mass hacking?

I don’t know why people are always thinking negative about bitcoin, you noticed that some old bitcoin wallet’s are been activate, can’t you just think or make assumptions that the owner of the bitcoin is just trying to change wallet, must you think the wallet have been hacked? Any slight thing happening in bitcoin, then just negative thing that’s always coming to our minds, I think it’s just better we stop sharing negative news about bitcoin, let’s try and be positive.

Maybe not, maybe the owner of the bitcoin just decided to move his bitcoin to a more secure wallet. Even if bitcoin have been inactive for long time, we all know the bitcoin belongs to someone, if the person haven’t lost his/her private key, then time will come when the person will activate the wallet, but that those not mean the person is trying to sell off the bitcoin or the wallet have been hacked.

It is impossible to hack into private keys that are not expose to a third party. If the OG bitcoiner could keep his coins safe for so many years,why did you think that he can't still keep it safe now. It is either the owner has decided to sell off his investment or is moving his coins to a more secured wallet. If it is possible for private keys to be hacked,then our coins are no longer safe which might have a bad effect on bitcoin. I guess your friend is spreading the FUD because he understands coding and he is using this to panic bitcoin investors. Let us be positive for once,when an OG chose to move his abandoned coin to another wallet. Sometimes, it might be that the owner has forgot his password or where he kept his phrase seed and after a long time he saw it,and decided to use or move his coins. We have heard so many old wallet being active after a long period of time,this should let you know that it is normal.

What a bunch of absolute clickbait nonsense. Claiming that all 12 and 24 word seed phrases are vulnerable!? I'm sorry, has someone managed to break the laws of thermodynamics and create a colossal amount of energy out of nothing in order to start cracking 2¹²⁸ bit seed phrases? Are the oceans boiling from the heat this energy is turning in to? Because that's legitimately what would happen if we used enough energy to successfully start brute forcing seed phrases. And lets not even mention the fact that seed phrases didn't even exist when most of these old addresses were funded for the first time.

An absolute trash article, but sadly what comes to pass for "news" in the crypto world. Just like that article a couple of weeks ago that claimed seed phrases are vulnerable because someone posted all their words online and then their coins were stolen.

OP, I really do not give in to this you have said. If there are recent old hacked wallets I believe the owners would definitely come up publicly to say something about it so as to make something out of it. If not necessarily engaging tech guru to help them recover their assets,  maybe a proper investigation to unravelling the identities behind the hack. Some would even turn it into a process to gain attention and recognition as early adopters of bitcoin you know how it feels then telling someone you were amongst the early adopters of bitcoin that is a catchy one you know.

Back to the reality,  hacking a wallet is not as easy as you think one must have clues of your keys if not in full some hint can gain them access but in this situation none of it is the case so how do you think it is possible. Let me run down to CEX hack as an illustration, do you think CEX exchange hack is just let alone a hacker, I believe there are always information leak before such could happen likewise private wallets too.

Let me remind you as well, do not forget that some of those accounts holders are tech gurus as well and they too are good at their games so tell me how do you explain that when you are sophisticated to protect your own. Some of the hacks claimed to have occurred on old 1st generational bitcoin wallets are not what we think some are just a change of wallet. Maybe the owners just felt like changing asset location to another current trending one to be on the safe side.
Of lately there have not been any complaint on private wallet hack rather it is coming from CEX so this justifies it that most old private wallets holding bitcoin safe or possibly change of assets location are not hack.

Fear sells. It is funny how the articles cite unrelated unknown and uncertain EVM-coins issues. And especially only citing the Bitcoin community concerns, solely on Twitter.

Mass hacks targeting veterans? Where is the other transaction source or information? the article only cites two dormant addresses. The next step for this kind of journalism is to rehash the news into sentiments like, look how tremendous Bitcoin investors' profits are and such kind of things. Fear leads a click, and a piece of bombastic news will follow as a rehashed version.

I know right, it would be impossible to steal a private key especially to an anonymous wallet. I think that's the case if you are one of the OG bitcoin holders you're like a celebrity in every action you take. Like just moving your funds suddenly you have an thread/article about it lmao. They are considered OG so it they know how to handle their funds that wouldn't be open to hacking.