Bitcointalk hacked and data for sale on dark web?

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Quote from: vino.gcs on October 11, 2016, 12:17:53 AM

Now they changed password security to sha256crypt anyway. It's good to have a stronger passwords. Tongue

Passwords were hashed and salted with sha256crypt at the time if the hack; it isn't a recent change. Agreed that a stronger password is always best though.

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Yes everyone know that it happened. Now they changed password security to sha256crypt anyway. It's good to have a stronger passwords. Tongue

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Quote from: startselect on October 10, 2016, 02:05:50 AM

I also started getting weird, Bitcoin related spam emails. I was wondering where they were coming from. Now I see.

I was wondering this myself, recently I keep finindg bitcoin related dark market offers in my email box associated with my bitcointalk account.

It is first time when something like this is happening after that database leak. Now I know I am not alone and someone bought email list of bitcointalk users and keep using it to send spam.

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Quote from: kalin on October 09, 2016, 10:52:17 PM

Definitely real. I used a unique email here to track if it ever escaped, and I have only in the last week or so started receiving lots of spam on that email Sad

Oh well, anything bitcoin is always a target. Im not surprised. Im just happy all details here are unique and fake.

I also started getting weird, Bitcoin related spam emails. I was wondering where they were coming from. Now I see.

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Quote from: whaSasd on September 17, 2016, 11:55:42 PM

I think the ddos attack was just a convenient time for this database leak info to resurface. Someone is out to make some quick cash.

the admins already confirmed the hack and it is said the database was hacked last year,so all the users need to be careful that their account is secure and users need to change the password.

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Definitely real. I used a unique email here to track if it ever escaped, and I have only in the last week or so started receiving lots of spam on that email Sad

Oh well, anything bitcoin is always a target. Im not surprised. Im just happy all details here are unique and fake.

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Quote from: Shinseiten on September 08, 2016, 03:04:18 AM

Hi, I saw this article but found nothing with the search. It's fake or should we worry?

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/hacked-bitcointalk-org-user-data-goes-up-for-sale-on-dark-web/

I'm lucky because I wasn't here on 2015, but I think I should say something at least, just to be sure.

Yes you're lucky because you are a newbie and you didn't registered your account on that year Tongue

maybe ? , right ? , but if you guys registered account from that year then change all like email and password so it wont hack.

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I think the ddos attack was just a convenient time for this database leak info to resurface. Someone is out to make some quick cash.

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Regardless if it was hacked or not, it wont hurt to change your password to a stronger one!

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I just received the following via Yahoo regarding an email address I used on this forum for one of my user accounts:

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Someone attempted to sign in to your Yahoo account () from an app that doesn't meet Yahoo's security standards. We blocked this sign in attempt, which was made on:

Sat, Sep 17, 2016 9:15 PM GMT+8 from China.

Maybe it was Paul Vernon wanting to send me the keys to his home in Florida so that I could fuck his ex-wife. HAHAHA (iconic Leroy Fodor laugh)

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Quote from: mundang on September 10, 2016, 10:05:43 PM

Gonna change my password now to a stronger one.
But i think its only a joke.

that info is true, however it happened in mid year 2015 and since your account is registered in 2016 you don't have to worry about your account getting hacked because of the leak but it is never bad to change your password once in a while

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Quote from: startselect on September 12, 2016, 12:29:46 AM

I was expecting to get an email from Bitcointalk telling us to change our passwords. I did. Also very important to change your password if you use the same email and passwords on other sites.

Btc talk send no email to its users to change passwords etc etc. It may be a fishy email attempting to collect the login info and hack your account. Because I didn't get an email like this, this is because my email is not public. And no one can get it.

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sad... btw where i can find info how to sing my acc? i saw a lot of ppl with signature auth etc i would like to do same but can not find any tuto

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I was expecting to get an email from Bitcointalk telling us to change our passwords. I did. Also very important to change your password if you use the same email and passwords on other sites.

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Quote from: achow101 on September 10, 2016, 09:51:20 PM

Quote from: carlfebz2 on September 10, 2016, 09:47:24 PM

Quote from: Lionidas on September 10, 2016, 09:10:33 PM

Quote from: amacar2 on September 09, 2016, 01:16:46 PM

Those datas are from one year old hack, so if you haven't opened account before than nothing to worry about. And even possibility of anyone gonna know your real password out of that sha256 encrypted passwords is really low. However changing password if you are in list of those hack accounts is always advised.

So this is not a second one? I heard there was one last year and then there are ddos attack just two days ago and yesterday. So I thought this was a new set of mined data from this new hack job during those attacks.

Thats what im thinking too that Database is new and on the latest hacking of bitcointalk website. I do experience website down for how many hours which is unusual since i didnt experience in the past and luckily i read this topic regarding of DDos of bitcointalk and database has been for sale on dark web which is somehow alarming for us users here in this forum.

A DDoS attack cannot recover any information from a website. It does exactly what the name of the attack implies, it Denies Service. No data is taken from the site. The database for sale is from the only major hack of bitcointalk which happened in May 2015.

This is correct DDos attacks cant get information on a website same as he said it Denies the service and doesnt even get informations. As i saw on the news the leaked database is from the past hacking incident on bitcointalks website which could really compromise accounts on that time.

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Quote from: Lionidas on September 10, 2016, 09:10:33 PM

So this is not a second one? I heard there was one last year and then there are ddos attack just two days ago and yesterday. So I thought this was a new set of mined data from this new hack job during those attacks.

If there really was a new hack job, Theymos would have notified everyone on Meta and probably sent PMs as well.

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Quote from: Shinseiten on September 08, 2016, 03:04:18 AM

Hi, I saw this article but found nothing with the search. It's fake or should we worry?

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/hacked-bitcointalk-org-user-data-goes-up-for-sale-on-dark-web/

I'm lucky because I wasn't here on 2015, but I think I should say something at least, just to be sure.

It's not fake but theymos has notified all users at that time to change the password.

Since you have been registered in 2016 that hasn't affected you but others should be aware if they haven't change the password since then.

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Gonna change my password now to a stronger one.
But i think its only a joke.

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Quote from: carlfebz2 on September 10, 2016, 09:47:24 PM

Quote from: Lionidas on September 10, 2016, 09:10:33 PM

Quote from: amacar2 on September 09, 2016, 01:16:46 PM

Those datas are from one year old hack, so if you haven't opened account before than nothing to worry about. And even possibility of anyone gonna know your real password out of that sha256 encrypted passwords is really low. However changing password if you are in list of those hack accounts is always advised.

So this is not a second one? I heard there was one last year and then there are ddos attack just two days ago and yesterday. So I thought this was a new set of mined data from this new hack job during those attacks.

Thats what im thinking too that Database is new and on the latest hacking of bitcointalk website. I do experience website down for how many hours which is unusual since i didnt experience in the past and luckily i read this topic regarding of DDos of bitcointalk and database has been for sale on dark web which is somehow alarming for us users here in this forum.

A DDoS attack cannot recover any information from a website. It does exactly what the name of the attack implies, it Denies Service. No data is taken from the site. The database for sale is from the only major hack of bitcointalk which happened in May 2015.

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Quote from: Lionidas on September 10, 2016, 09:10:33 PM

Quote from: amacar2 on September 09, 2016, 01:16:46 PM

Those datas are from one year old hack, so if you haven't opened account before than nothing to worry about. And even possibility of anyone gonna know your real password out of that sha256 encrypted passwords is really low. However changing password if you are in list of those hack accounts is always advised.

So this is not a second one? I heard there was one last year and then there are ddos attack just two days ago and yesterday. So I thought this was a new set of mined data from this new hack job during those attacks.

Thats what im thinking too that Database is new and on the latest hacking of bitcointalk website. I do experience website down for how many hours which is unusual since i didnt experience in the past and luckily i read this topic regarding of DDos of bitcointalk and database has been for sale on dark web which is somehow alarming for us users here in this forum.

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