Topic: BEWARE: HITBTC.com Altered Recipient ETH Wallet Address, Post Confirmation Email (Read 253 times)

You do realize that Ethereum addresses are not actually case sensitive, right?

The case is only used as a checksum to make sure it's a valid address.

See: https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/9220/eth-address-upper-and-lower-characters-does-not-matter

I attempted to withdraw ETH from HITBTC.com and deposit it into my ETH wallet on another site.  I copy and pasted the recipient address and put it on the withdrawal request page.  I got a notification saying that I would have to verify this transaction via email.  I promptly opened my email and saw that the information was correct and I confirmed it.  Several days passed and I saw that the transaction still hadn't gone through so I began to wonder why?  I checked the blockchain and saw that my nearly 1 ETH had been sent, however, the recipient address where I wanted it sent to had been completely altered!  I went back and checked my confirmation email and saw that the information I confirmed was correct.  What happened to the address was that several of the lower case letters had been capitalized and some of the capital letters had become lower case letters.  I was totally perplexed by this.  I immediately filled out a bug report and contacted support. I received an email back from the bug report team thanking me for the information and saying they would look into the matter asap.  That's great and all, but looking into the matter isn't really getting me back my ETH that they sent off to an incorrect address.   They need to fix this problem and give me back the ETH they sent off somewhere other than where I requested it go.  Have any of you folks had any similar problms with this company?  Please let me know.