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It sounds absurd: why would anyone upload their Bitcoin wallet to a public web server? The reasons are usually accidental but fall into several categories:

Developers often create "staging" sites that mirror production. A desperate developer, needing to test a payment feature, copies a real wallet.dat into the staging environment. They forget to password-protect the directory, and Google indexes it via a robots.txt leak. Index-of-bitcoin-wallet-dat

If the private keys are recovered, the attacker uses a script to sweep the addresses. They do not move the funds immediately—they wait for non-business hours (usually 3 AM UTC) to combine and launder the coins. It sounds absurd: why would anyone upload their