Blockchain.info Back Online, CEO Confirms a ‘Sophisticated’ DNS Attack
An unknown attacker gained access to Blockchain.info’s DNS accounts yesterday, the company has confirmed. The attack, now resolved, caused Blockchain to go offline for several hours. Attacker Controlled DNS, Posted Phishing Site. In a blog post, the company stated an attacker was able to change Blockchain.info‘s DNS servers. The breach, it said, occurred....
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A public service announcement for anyone trying to use the Blockchain.info website this evening. The site, as you may have noticed, is down - showing "We Will Be Back Shortly" to anyone who visits. According to Blockchain.info, the downtime relates to a database issue: We are experiencing a database issue at the moment and may take a several hours to come back fully online. Sorry for the inconvenience! Thankfully, Blockchain.info has a very competent and experienced staff, so it should only be a short matter of time before services are restored to a normal state. In the meantime, if you're....
Blockchain.info reported a DNS attack yesterday, forcing the platform to go offline for few hours. Blockchain.info is the latest victim of a cyber-attack. The Blockchain tools and wallet service provider reported a security breach affecting its DNS servers yesterday. According to the company’s statement, the attack happened at around 5:42 AM EST after an unknown attacker managed to access the DNS servers belonging to Blockchain.info. The attack led to a temporary outage of services which was later rectified by the Blockchain’s team. The company, in its blog post, claims that the attack was....
Popular online wallet provider Blockchain.info today sent a tweet that notes that the service has had 70,000 new wallet registrations in the period of one week. If basic math isn't your forte, that's 10,000 new sign-ups per day, which is certainly a significant number. Blockchain.info is known for their ease-of-use online wallets, and as such, has become quite reputable in the Bitcoin community. Not only that, Blockchain.info also serves as the de facto place to view Bitcoin transactions taking place around the world, which of course are public as per the Bitcoin protocol. No doubt, the....
Yesterday I posted a news blurb surrounding the imminent creation of Blockchain.info's 500,000th online wallet. Whoever was to create this wallet would be the lucky recipient of 10 bitcoins, or over $2,000 USD. As it were, it looks like someone has indeed won the prize, and they're coming out with a statement, posted on Reddit. Here it is: This is so immeasurably awesome! Thank you so much! The funny thing is, I had no idea you were running a contest! I used to dabble in Bitcoins a couple of years ago (bought 5 BTC back when they were like £5 each, gutted that I sold them for £6 a few....
Blockchain.info today announced that they are the second website in the world to receive an SSL certificate for their .onion address. This is a huge win for privacy and Bitcoin enthusiasts around the world, and it answers growing concerns surrounding the security of using web wallets such as Blockchain.info while connected via the Tor network. In the past, there have been several reports of Blockchain.info users losing their funds after using Blockchain.info through the Tor network. Rogue Tor exit nodes were being specifically used to execute man in the middle (MITM) attacks on users....