HashCows Crypto Mining Pool Compromised
Source: hashco.ws. The HashCows crypto mining pool is reporting some grim news this Christmas Eve. The service reports that their mining pool has been compromised. Perhaps put best in their words: There's been a breach this afternoon with a number of users reporting payout addresses being changed and manual payouts being triggered to the new address. All payouts have been disabled and we are working on determining the scope of the issue. While its unlikely passwords have been compromised (and nothing is stored plain text in the db anyways), its not a bad practice to assume the worst and....
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