[2014-08-07] Guardian: Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool

southern

newbie

Activity: 10

Merit: 0

Quote from: botany on August 07, 2014, 01:12:14 PM

Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool

www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/07/hacker-bitcoin-mining-pool-internet-service-providers-canada-dell

Some words of praise for the hacker....
The researchers were impressed by the ingenuity of the hacker, saying it was a “great idea”, at least from a criminal perspective.

Tongue

They got a nice amount, wonder how much it will be worth in a few years

Kprawn

legendary

Activity: 1904

Merit: 1074

They did not use SSL so what did they expect? Some of these operators have no clue... They take out of the box solutions and think it's secure if they use default values. Sad

Do the basics right, and you half way covered.

botany

legendary

Activity: 1582

Merit: 1064

Quote from: aigeezer on August 07, 2014, 01:21:22 PM

But wait, there's more! "As many as 8,000 Dogecoins, equivalent to $1.42, were lost as a result of the hack." (No kidding, that's a real quote from the story).

Apart from bitcoins and dogecoins, he also mined HoboNickels and WorldCoins. I am presuming the value of this would be less than $1.42, as it wasn't even mentioned. Tongue

aigeezer

legendary

Activity: 1450

Merit: 1013

Cryptanalyst castrated by his government, 1952

But wait, there's more! "As many as 8,000 Dogecoins, equivalent to $1.42, were lost as a result of the hack." (No kidding, that's a real quote from the story).

botany

legendary

Activity: 1582

Merit: 1064

Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool

www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/07/hacker-bitcoin-mining-pool-internet-service-providers-canada-dell

Some words of praise for the hacker....
The researchers were impressed by the ingenuity of the hacker, saying it was a “great idea”, at least from a criminal perspective.

Tongue

Topic: [2014-08-07] Guardian: Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool (Read 710 times)