LeakedSource Publishes an Update on BTC-E and BitcoinTalk Hacking Incidents
LeakedSource publishes stolen data from BitcoinTalk and BTC-E hacking incidents in the past two years. Hacking incidents are not unheard of, especially in the Bitcoin sector. The frequency of reports on Bitcoin exchanges being compromised is on an increase. However, the extent of damage is not always clear, except in cases where the targetted platform decides to divulge the details in the name of transparency. Sometimes it takes years before the user gets to know the full story. LeakedSource, a website that keeps track of stolen user information has published information about the security....
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The details of cyberattacks resulting in breaches of user data from two prominent bitcoin websites – bitcoin exchange BTC-e and Bitcointalk.or, the largest bitcoin forum around – have been revealed. Data breach indexing and monitoring resource LeakedSource has revealed details surrounding data breaches suffered by bitcoin exchange Btc-e in 2014 and bitcoin discussion forum Bitcointalk.org in 2015. LeakedSource reviewed the stolen user data from both websites. Fortunately, the security framework and password encryption techniques used by the websites are revealed to be remarkably good,....
Earlier this week it was reported that bitcoin's main forum had experienced some unexpected downtime. As we've gotten accustomed to from other incidents with bitcointalk, the discussion was taken to the bitcoin subreddit where theymos, the forum's administrator, confirmed that there were some issues with the storage disks. After he claimed to have fixed the problems and brought the forum back online, users are unable to access the forum once again. Bitcointalk's downtime and data loss. Theymos finally posted an update on the situation hours after users had started complaining about the....
Bitcointalk.org, the Bitcoin Forum, is currently offline with the official explanation being a DOS attack. In the past, Bitcointalk.org has faced hacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and DDOS. According to isitdownrightnow, a service that tells you the status of websites worldwide, bitcointalk.org has been down since at least 17:00 PT. This is corroborated by the first reports on twitter of the bitcointalk.org outage: is @bitcointalk forum down? - digit (@_digit_) November 14, 2014. @bitcointalk is down! - Tetcoin (@Tetcoin) November 14, 2014. In the meantime, users can use Bitcointa.lk,....
BitcoinTalk staff quietly banned multiple accounts that were connected to Sir William's protest against BitcoinTalk for allowing people to buy and sell their BitcoinTalk accounts. MajidBC, the account who messaged SirWilliam in an attempt to purchase his account, is now banned along with the "CozyLife" account as they found the write-up on their practices not to their liking. CCN's policy is only to report what authors can prove and to update the articles with new information as it arrives. Also read: Bitcointalk Accounts Are Being Bought and Sold. BitcoinTalk Staff Quietly Bans Those Who....
The Bitcoin community now has more worrying things on its plate. As if hacking incidents plaguing cryptocurrency exchanges aren’t enough, the number of malware and ransomware threats on the rise. In the past couple of weeks, a number of new malicious programs were detected by multiple cyber security firms. One look at the list is enough to know that no device is currently safe. Windows Ransomware. A new ransomware called Fantom is wreaking havoc among Windows machine users. The malware cleverly disguises itself as an official update from Microsoft, tricking users into installing it.....