Some of the earliest Bitcoin transactions were signed with a private key most people collectively believe belonged to Satoshi Nakamoto.  However, many publications propose Craig Wright may have obtained the private key from the real Nakamoto, then embarked on an elaborate hoax to be an impostor to Nakamoto.

What are the most likely ways Craig Wright could have obtained Nakamoto's private key, necessary to carry out this hoax?

Edit
Apparently Bitcoin Chief Scientist Gavin Adresen is backtracking on his assertion that Mr Write demonstrated he is in possession of private keys owned by Nakamoto.  So the premise of the question is likely not true.

Wright did not obtain Nakamoto's private key. 

What he did provide as evidence was a signature from one of the early bitcoin transactions. However, that signature is from the blockchain and can be looked up by anyone.

Wright was able to fool some people from the mainstream media who don't really understand the technical details, but the security community debunked it quite quickly. Security Researcher Dan Kaminsky tweeted on May 2nd: 


  Satoshi signed a transaction in 2009. Wright copied that specific signature and tried to pass it off as new. 


Also, the official Twitter account of the Bitcoin Core Project tweeted on May 2nd:


  There is currently no publicly available cryptographic proof that anyone in particular is Bitcoin's creator.


By the way, The Economist, the original news outlet who started spreading the claim, has now published a correction.

A proper proof of Nakamoto's identity would, for example, be a message reading "My real name is Craig Wright" signed with the Satoshi Nakamoto PGP key or a new bitcoin transaction from a wallet confirmed to be owned by Satoshi Nakamoto. But so far this hasn't happened.

Gavin Adresen, chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, claimed to have seen such proof by Wright, but has not posted that proof publicly. Why he would make such a claim without providing any evidence whatsoever for it and expects the world to just trust his word is a mystery. Convincing people of a miracle solely by claiming very sincerely that you saw it with your own eyes might work in certain religious circles, but certainly not in the more scientifically inclined crypto community.

By the way: I am the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Prove me wrong.
