Blockchain.info CEO: “Attackers Gained Access to our Accounts”
Prominent bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info saw downtime yesterday, following a “highly sophisticated attack” targeting its DNS servers. It was the first notable instance of a sweeping DNS attack leading to a phishing trap in the bitcoin space, where attackers sought to gain credentials from Blockchain.info users. Management at the wallet provider shut down the entire platform for over seven hours, to determine and plug the exploit. In a blog post published following the attack, CEO & Co-founder Peter Smith has stated that the compromise occurred due to a “highly sophisticated....
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Over the past few weeks, the Bitcoin webwallet provider Blockchain.info has had numerous security issues. One such issue occurred when they made a problematic edit to their code, which resulted in insecure wallet generation. Fortunately, a user gained access to these wallets and returned the bitcoins to Blockchain.info. This recent security issue, as well as others, has prompted redditors to complain that Blockchain.info's name is confused by Bitcoin newbies as being the actual Bitcoin block chain. All over /r/Bitcoin on reddit, whenever a user writes about Blockchain.info but calls it....
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....
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....
What could it mean? Oh hey, something interesting just popped up. Shhhhhhhh. ) pic.twitter.com/Uis5bchfVd. - Blockchain.info (@blockchain) February 2, 2014. Blockchain just tweeted this a few hours ago. Looks like they purchased Blockchain.com on 28 January, 2014 based on a simple whois search. Until recently, Blockchain.com belonged to an unknown entity, whose identity was protected with WhoisGuard. Blockchain has been trying to purchase the domain since the summer of 2012, and it seems like they've finally succeeded. Most likely, users will now be able to access their wallets from....
The world's most popular Bitcoin wallet with more than 8 mln Blockchain wallet users is down. As at the time of this publication, Blockchain.info has been down for more than four hours. The web server reports a bad gateway error, with a message on the website’s landing page that says: “Looks like our site is down. We're working on it and should be back up soon”. A tweet from the wallet says they are looking into a DNS issue. In another tweet, they say they are making progress with resolving the issue but need several hours to fully restore services. However, as expected, since many users....