Be careful folks. Just got hacked, lost some BTC today.

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Quote from: TheJacob on December 05, 2013, 11:53:58 PM

Definitely need two-factor authentication for sites dealing with bitcoins. Especially if they are going to fire off withdrawals to whatever address you put in. Sorry to hear that happened to you though.

I always thought that 2FA on sites was less secure. That's where the weakspot was from inputs.io

I still don't understand why security tokens aren't more widely adopted. At least for accounts with large sums of money in them.

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Quote from: j5d on December 05, 2013, 10:46:10 PM

Today, approximately 3 hours ago, it was withdrawn to a Bitcoin wallet "in Moscow" according to blockchain.info's block explorer.

Here's the transaction in question: https://blockchain.info/tx/6fe852a0c72f3195a84a0cbf46984a50d905923a4b9d1390af3d0bf14d3a7232

that means the transaction originated from moscow, most likely by the exchange that held the funds. it's not the ip address of the address the funds were withdrawn to.

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Quote from: Kungfucheez on December 06, 2013, 11:07:35 AM

Little confused

Why not tell people which exchange you are referring to?
And why should I feel bad when you apparently have 124 bitcoins, ~~ $120,000 in your wallet when you said .025 was all you had?

It's not his wallet. It's the site's wallet i.e. a shared wallet. Who knows who's bitcoins are in which address?

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ok good story. actualy not so good, but that's nice if it was made up to remind people to be a litlle more cnocerned about security

The most interesting part was :

"in a popular crypto exchange online"

so can we knkow which one it is now

Kungfucheez

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Little confused

Why not tell people which exchange you are referring to?
And why should I feel bad when you apparently have 124 bitcoins, ~~ $120,000 in your wallet when you said .025 was all you had?

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Quote from: j5d on December 05, 2013, 10:46:10 PM

I'm just putting out this friendly warning.

Be UBER careful with how you deal with your Bitcoin security, people.

I had a small number of Bitcoin, .025 to be exact, in a popular crypto exchange online.

Today, approximately 3 hours ago, it was withdrawn to a Bitcoin wallet "in Moscow" according to blockchain.info's block explorer.

Here's the transaction in question: https://blockchain.info/tx/6fe852a0c72f3195a84a0cbf46984a50d905923a4b9d1390af3d0bf14d3a7232

I just sent the site support team a question asking where my BTC is, but I found out shortly after on my own. It is no longer mine.

They haven't responded yet. They'll probably tell me I withdrew it, which according to the transaction history is true. But I didn't authorize the withdrawal, and that certainly is not my wallet address.

I'm not destroyed over this. Slightly bothered? Sure, as it was the only Bitcoin I had after fumbling around a bit in the exchange and losing half of it to newbie mistake trades. You live and learn I suppose. My case is but one more reminder to play it safe.

Time to virus scan the comp, change passwords, the works.

Full of swindlers everywhere Angry

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You should always use two factor authentication and strong passwords.
What was the exchange?

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"popular crypto exchange online"

thats the problem.

and you havent updated your maleware-scanner, passwords and you have no 2 factor authentication right?

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Quote from: j5d on December 05, 2013, 10:46:10 PM

I'm just putting out this friendly warning.

Be UBER careful with how you deal with your Bitcoin security, people.

I had a small number of Bitcoin, .025 to be exact, in a popular crypto exchange online.

What exchange?

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Quote from: TheJacob on December 05, 2013, 11:53:58 PM

Definitely need two-factor authentication for sites dealing with bitcoins. Especially if they are going to fire off withdrawals to whatever address you put in. Sorry to hear that happened to you though.

I always thought that 2FA on sites was less secure. That's where the weakspot was from inputs.io

Mobile phone verification seems pretty secure, unless I'm missing something. What are your concerns with it and what happened with inputs.io?

TheJacob

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Definitely need two-factor authentication for sites dealing with bitcoins. Especially if they are going to fire off withdrawals to whatever address you put in. Sorry to hear that happened to you though.

j5d

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I'm just putting out this friendly warning.

Be UBER careful with how you deal with your Bitcoin security, people.

I had a small number of Bitcoin, .025 to be exact, in a popular crypto exchange online.

Today, approximately 3 hours ago, it was withdrawn to a Bitcoin wallet "in Moscow" according to blockchain.info's block explorer.

Here's the transaction in question: https://blockchain.info/tx/6fe852a0c72f3195a84a0cbf46984a50d905923a4b9d1390af3d0bf14d3a7232

I just sent the site support team a question asking where my BTC is, but I found out shortly after on my own. It is no longer mine.

They haven't responded yet. They'll probably tell me I withdrew it, which according to the transaction history is true. But I didn't authorize the withdrawal, and that certainly is not my wallet address.

I'm not destroyed over this. Slightly bothered? Sure, as it was the only Bitcoin I had after fumbling around a bit in the exchange and losing half of it to newbie mistake trades. You live and learn I suppose. My case is but one more reminder to play it safe.

Time to virus scan the comp, change passwords, the works.

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