HashOcean: Another Cloud Mining Scam?
In the world of cloud-based bitcoin mining, you never know what you are going to get. Most operators should be scrutinized and researched thoroughly before signing up as there are definitely some legitimate operations. However, there are quite a bit of shady practices as well in the cloud mining space. Recently, a lot of discussions have been aimed at....
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Three separate online petitions have been opened by individuals who have reportedly lost their investments in the defunct HashOcean Bitcoin mining company. They are seeking to get the interest of the relevant transborder crimes department of law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, CIA, Interpol and MI6. The petitions include FBI - EUA: FIND HASHOCEAN.COM by Hugo Trombini in Brazil, FBI - EUA - CIA - MI-6 - INTERPOL: FIND OWNER HASHOCEAN.COM by Adam A. from the United Kingdom and FBI And Interpol Hashocean 700,000 people swindled by Gonzalo D. from Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires,....
Usual website activities of a major Bitcoin miner Hashocean are nowhere to be found, fuelling suggestions that the cloudminer is a scam. Hashocean to another Ocean’s Trilogy. According to ‘Is It Down Right Now’ which monitors the status of favorite web sites and checks whether they are down or not using the test tool below, as well as graphs and users’ comments, Hashocean has been down for more than five days. A visit to the Hashocean website shows the ‘403 Forbidden cloudflare-nginx’ message. “Hashocean.com is PARKED,” "Is It Down Right Now" says. “The website is either expired....
To safeguard themselves from scams within the cryptocurrency ecosystem, investors must avoid being greedy, be logical in their analysis of opportunities and dedicate time and resources to research and education. Bitcoin theft and scam is becoming more popular. Complaints about loss of investments within the crypto space is becoming a common occurrence. As a result, online investment companies which deal with cryptocurrencies have recently become increasingly perceived with a negative bias. Scammers these days seem to ride on the anonymous characteristics of the industry to deceive....
After "Is It Down Right Now" reported non-activity on the website of HashOcean for more than five days, major Bitcoin miner whose unresponsiveness has triggered disappointment at cloud mining efforts with suggestions that its investors have been scammed has finally made a public show. In a post on its new Facebook page, HashOcean claims its domain and previous Facebook page were hacked: “Sorry for inconvenience. Last night we got attacked by hacker which somehow can access our domain and posted our domain for sale. Now, we already take anything under our control and nothing....
The latest information from a group which claims to be ethical hackers shows efforts to trace the owners and identify the operation of the defunct HashOcean Bitcoin mining company, which suddenly disappeared with an estimated millions of dollars worth of the digital currency as investment from miner, is ongoing. “We are so close and we have been giving all of our Intel to Dunn and Cowan,” the group calling itself Kypertech says to CoinTelegraph. If this group which claims to be “an Ethical Hacking Group dedicated to preserving the safety of blockchain technology” achieves success, it will....