"Give Me COINS" Litecoin Pool Hacked
The somewhat awkwardly named Give Me COINS multicoin mining pool was just recently hacked, specifically the Litecoin pool. Pool admins have acknowledged the breach and are currently investigating the issue. Here's the most recent announcement: We have just been notifyed [sic] that LTC addresses are now blank on accounts and all coins have been withdrawn out of some pool accounts. We are currently investigating this issue and are trackign [sic] what has happened. Once this is done we will rectify the situation. We please ask that you send us any info that you may have to aid is [sic] in the....
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