Topic: [2017-08-22] ICO-crooks stole $500 thousand in about "project Enigma" (Read 240 times)

This is another sad story involving another ICO project. I am wondering why there is seems to be a safety problem with Slack. I have seen many messages in Slack which are phishing in  nature and if I am not mistaken that is where I clicked a link leading to the hacking of my account in MyEtherWallet.com. Maybe it is time for Slack to look into this matter as this is a very important and grave concern otherwise many would start not to use the platform anymore due to security problems.  There will always be hackers and scammers around so we all have to be careful.

As much as $500 thousand in the air was stolen from blockchain supporters of the Enigma project as a result of violations of safety rules. According to the team Enigma members of the theft was able to take control of the domain of the project site, the account of one of the administrators on Slack-channel and mailing lists. After establishing control, the crooks started to masquerade as official team and gave suggestions on "pre -" sale of coins. The team said: "Enigma team already controls all the compromised accounts, including the website. Some pages will be unavailable until the command works. Please continue to be vigilant and check our messages on ALL channels. Please refrain from sending money or personal messages." Fake offers took place using Slack and email. Crooks referred to the "tremendous support pre-sale" and found about a link to the web site Enigma. TechCrunch reports that fake address Enigma was deposited oкoлo1500 ether (us $500,000) before the team was able to regain control of the domain. According to the network, the address is already withdrawn by hackers. As previously reported, Enigma aims to create a decentralized information hub which needed fast cryptocurrency hedge funds (although in the long term it is planned the creation of market data).