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Bitcoin reward offered to anyone who could break into an unpatched server running PHP, hacker cracks site and claims bounty

Tom's Hardware · US · Hardware · 10/26/2026, 6:30:00 AM

The “Steal My Bitcoin” challenge offers a bounty to anyone who can breach a deliberately vulnerable PHP website using the recently disclosed PHP2Shell flaws. The challenge follows previous recoveries of locked Bitcoin fortunes through software vulnerabilities and AI-assisted investigation, but no successful claim has been confirmed.

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