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In the twitter thread the OP links to.

https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609683917644120067

You can easily browse through his recent tweets here https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/with_replies

Thanks, added a correction.

Yeah, my best guess is that he was owned for a while and the hackers managed to pivot into everything owns. The plan was probably to backdoor bitcoin core, but after luke-jr detected his server being compromised the hackers figured they were burned and decided to run off with whatever bitcoin they could get from him.

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