87% of EVERY password associated with cryptocurrencies HAS BEEN Breached!

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Quote from: counter on August 09, 2014, 04:11:48 PM

Guess it can't hurt to have a your passwords change on a somewhat random basis. Maybe use a few different passwords and then change some on a schedule like every 50 days. I know one thing their is no way I'd pay that amount to find out if I'm a in danger of not having my coins secure.

Screams of hustler / snake oil salesman to me. I'm pretty skeptical of this. Naturally, it's always best to have long random passwords and to change them regularly regardless.

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Guess I have to switch from aaaaaaaa to bbbbbbbb now Cry

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Time is on our side, yes it is!

Guess it can't hurt to have a your passwords change on a somewhat random basis. Maybe use a few different passwords and then change some on a schedule like every 50 days. I know one thing their is no way I'd pay that amount to find out if I'm a in danger of not having my coins secure.

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Quote from: Unluckyduck on August 09, 2014, 01:34:11 AM

Uhhh i thought the 1.2 billion accounts were just random email accounts that are not necessarily related at all to crypto

Looks like you only read the OP, bud.

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Uhhh i thought the 1.2 billion accounts were just random email accounts that are not necessarily related at all to crypto

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Quote from: beetcoin on August 08, 2014, 09:43:42 PM

Quote from: Omikifuse on August 08, 2014, 09:19:35 PM

Quote from: beetcoin on August 08, 2014, 09:11:56 PM

simple solution: go cold storage. even if this claim were true, there's no way they could get a PW from a computer that is not connected to the internet.

Hot wallets are necessary, for example, to run business that accept bitcoin as payments, or exchanges. So the password issue is something that must be worked one

most convert to cash, don't they? so bitpay would just send them USD almost instantly.

Not all. Exchanges and bet sites that operate only with Bitcoins, like DiceBitcoin, need to have hot wallets to the withdraw requests.

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Quote from: BurtW on August 08, 2014, 02:11:24 PM

I use lastpass and change my passwords regularly to new long randomly generated passwords. I don't have to remember them lastpass does that for me. So far, so good.

Been using Lastpass for 2 years. All my passwords are random and 15+ characters long.

All I have to remember is one password for my vault.

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Quote from: Omikifuse on August 08, 2014, 09:19:35 PM

Quote from: beetcoin on August 08, 2014, 09:11:56 PM

simple solution: go cold storage. even if this claim were true, there's no way they could get a PW from a computer that is not connected to the internet.

Hot wallets are necessary, for example, to run business that accept bitcoin as payments, or exchanges. So the password issue is something that must be worked one

most convert to cash, don't they? so bitpay would just send them USD almost instantly.

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Quote from: beetcoin on August 08, 2014, 09:11:56 PM

simple solution: go cold storage. even if this claim were true, there's no way they could get a PW from a computer that is not connected to the internet.

Hot wallets are necessary, for example, to run business that accept bitcoin as payments, or exchanges. So the password issue is something that must be worked one

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simple solution: go cold storage. even if this claim were true, there's no way they could get a PW from a computer that is not connected to the internet.

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If they are charging that much to allow people to "find out" if their account was affected, there is a good chance that the group is just spreading FUD in order to get people to pay for their "service"

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Quote from: BurtW on August 08, 2014, 02:11:24 PM

I use lastpass and change my passwords regularly to new long randomly generated passwords. I don't have to remember them lastpass does that for me. So far, so good.

Lastpass is handy but I deleted my account. Anything sensitive online is double or triple encrypted.

I keep a copy of logins in the cloud but only in severely encrypted file formats. Not only do they have to hack my cloud provider; they need to defeat my personal encryption protocols. Yes, given enough time I'm sure they could obtain the data they have no idea is valuable or not.

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Quote from: Gleb Gamow on August 08, 2014, 02:42:17 PM

Quote from: BitcoinMillionaire on August 08, 2014, 02:22:00 PM

Quote from: Gleb Gamow on August 08, 2014, 08:09:13 AM

Firm That Exposed Breach Of 'Billion Passwords' Quickly Offered $120 Service To Find Out If You're Affected

Why I Am Skeptical About 1.2-Billion Passwords Being Stolen

Fortunately, Alex Holden of Hold Security - the cybersecurity firm credited by the New York Times with discovering this cryptocurrency password breach AND the 1.2B passwords recently stolen by them pesky Russkies - has offer up a monthly service to see if you're shit had been hacked.

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Alex Holden, a devoted Bitcoiner, says that the service will only be $120/month. “We are charging this fee to recover our expense to verify the domain or website ownership,” he says by email. “While we do not anticipate any fraud, we need to be cognizant of its potential. The other thing to consider, the cost that our company must undertake to proactively reach out to a company to identify the right individual(s) to inform of a breach, prove to them that we are the ‘good guys’. Believe it or not, it is a hard and often thankless task.”

Woah really? I guess I better go and change my password I use on all sites... How can they do this? I mean Bitcoin is supposed to be safe. I hope my coins on BTC-e are still safe.

Don't bother!: http://www.youarenotpayingattention.com/2014/08/08/the-lie-behind-1-2-billion-stolen-passwords/

Woah, alright then. I guess we all have gotten away safely this time. But I think I'll just change my password on the most important sites, anyways. I'll have to remember two then, though... Haha, Millionaire-problems, I guess Cheesy

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Quote from: BitcoinMillionaire on August 08, 2014, 02:22:00 PM

Quote from: Gleb Gamow on August 08, 2014, 08:09:13 AM

Firm That Exposed Breach Of 'Billion Passwords' Quickly Offered $120 Service To Find Out If You're Affected

Why I Am Skeptical About 1.2-Billion Passwords Being Stolen

Fortunately, Alex Holden of Hold Security - the cybersecurity firm credited by the New York Times with discovering this cryptocurrency password breach AND the 1.2B passwords recently stolen by them pesky Russkies - has offer up a monthly service to see if you're shit had been hacked.

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Alex Holden, a devoted Bitcoiner, says that the service will only be $120/month. “We are charging this fee to recover our expense to verify the domain or website ownership,” he says by email. “While we do not anticipate any fraud, we need to be cognizant of its potential. The other thing to consider, the cost that our company must undertake to proactively reach out to a company to identify the right individual(s) to inform of a breach, prove to them that we are the ‘good guys’. Believe it or not, it is a hard and often thankless task.”

Woah really? I guess I better go and change my password I use on all sites... How can they do this? I mean Bitcoin is supposed to be safe. I hope my coins on BTC-e are still safe.

Don't bother!: http://www.youarenotpayingattention.com/2014/08/08/the-lie-behind-1-2-billion-stolen-passwords/

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Bling Bling

Quote from: Gleb Gamow on August 08, 2014, 08:09:13 AM

Firm That Exposed Breach Of 'Billion Passwords' Quickly Offered $120 Service To Find Out If You're Affected

Why I Am Skeptical About 1.2-Billion Passwords Being Stolen

Fortunately, Alex Holden of Hold Security - the cybersecurity firm credited by the New York Times with discovering this cryptocurrency password breach AND the 1.2B passwords recently stolen by them pesky Russkies - has offer up a monthly service to see if you're shit had been hacked.

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Alex Holden, a devoted Bitcoiner, says that the service will only be $120/month. “We are charging this fee to recover our expense to verify the domain or website ownership,” he says by email. “While we do not anticipate any fraud, we need to be cognizant of its potential. The other thing to consider, the cost that our company must undertake to proactively reach out to a company to identify the right individual(s) to inform of a breach, prove to them that we are the ‘good guys’. Believe it or not, it is a hard and often thankless task.”

Woah really? I guess I better go and change my password I use on all sites... How can they do this? I mean Bitcoin is supposed to be safe. I hope my coins on BTC-e are still safe.

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All paid signature campaigns should be banned.

I use lastpass and change my passwords regularly to new long randomly generated passwords. I don't have to remember them lastpass does that for me. So far, so good.

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I can make a false leak of some hundreads of passwords for $120/month Roll Eyes

If you understand what I mean

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hmm yes change regularly pass is good choice.
but i got problem from that , sometimes i forgot my new pass and take alot of times to recover that again.

my friend kept all their password and what site in his email.
until one day his email got hacked and you know what happen next ..........

he screw his life because of that , he lose alot and cry like hell for 1 week Grin

vm1990

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ahhh its nice to see people are still stupid
i want proof Cheesy

as for Alex Holden he can go and shove his $120 con up his ass

for example most of the "passwords" he has will be

111111
aaaaaa
password

and other such things. if you want a password to be safe then simply make a good random password. dont go and use your dogs name or a word out of the dictionary (yes im talking to you whos now realizing how foolish he/she was by using a simple word and has the joy of me insulting them for there simplicity, NOW CHANGE IT FOOL)

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Quote from: poisenrang on August 08, 2014, 09:54:05 AM

even if this was real, you just cant get any bitcoin/blockchain accounts its just too secure i guess, identificaition, password, the identification itsself is a password already Shocked

Are we talking about Bitcoin accounts (addresses?) or blockchain.info accounts here? People have to specify what they're talking about. Blockchain.info is just a regular company that's offering online wallets. They have no 'special' connection to the actual bitcoin blockchain whatsoever!

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