I've just had two failed login attempts on both my happyminers account and my pooljunkies account.
Everyone Beware - someone is trying to hack into our 42 pool accounts.
Make sure you use a strong password.
Yes someone changed my payout address this morning on HappyMiners whilst I was asleep from mining since about block 415 ish, so all my payouts were sent to another address which was annoying. I have changed my password since, but to change the payout address, you have to know the pin number as well, I have no clue how they managed to do that.
I just hope pool has not been hacked. Anyway all is good at the moment and I am trying to make sure I send often to my wallet.
Edit: Also set my username to Anonymous.
happy2miners is either hacked or they cheated us all my account also got changed
Oh what happened, was it that someone had changed your payout address to something else?
I am still trying to work out how that happened with me as you have to enter your Pin when doing changes like that, so they must have known my PIN too. Anyway since changing it, it was fine after that, I just lost perhaps 4 hours mining from it. I have stopped mining at the pool since and have done some solo mining. I found a block earlier which would have taken me a while to get in the pool so feel abit happier. I think I am about back to where I would have been if I had not had my transactions taken. I doubt or rather hope that the pool did not steal it. Might be good for the pool admin to go back and check as there might be other people who might be asleep and just left their miners mining and their coins could be going to somewhere else too. Although I fear during the day I might discover and yourself that we were not the only ones.
The same issue happened to me 2 days ago on two different pools. Particles and Cage. I lost 23k on particles and 2mil on cage. Same MO, Wallet address changed. On happyminers, it shows that someone tried to access it 2 times this morning.
What I believe is happening is some pool operator (or someone with access) from an "Unknow" pool (scam pool???) is using the username, pass and PIN that we made at that pool and is trying to see if he or she can have access to other pools. Also, I have noticed if I post (using the same username on this forum and pools), the "You have X failed login attempts!" appears on that pool, be it a new or old pool (eg. new coin comes out, I write great or whatever, in forum, create a new account, using the same forum name, on a brand new pool related to the new coin, the failed login shows up). I have talked to a pool operator who tried to help me. By following the address, in this case, Cagecoin, hundreds of transactions were made in the same day.
So:
Recap:
If you use the same password for multiple pools, they could have hacked the other pool or could even be one of the admins from other pools since they would have access to the salt key.
-Don't use the same Username
-Don't use the same Password
-Don't use the same PIN number
-Change to anonymous, if available.
-Check if your Wallet address is still the same
-Report any strange behaviour with your account to the pool operator
I hope it helps!