BTC Stolen from Poloniex - page 21. | Bitcointalksearch.org

tlr

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Quote from: Mike Hearn on March 04, 2014, 09:42:28 AM

busoni, you need to shut down Poloniex now and try to make your users whole from your own funds and debt. Do not continue trying to run an exchange. Your post mortem indicates that you do not have sufficient programming ability to handle other peoples money - no mention was even made of database transactions, which are a basic "database programming 101" topic. Your proposed fix of checking for negative balances is wrong and indicates that your code is almost certainly riddled with other exploitable bugs.

Please do the right thing and refund everyones outstanding balances, then wind up your operation.

I agree with Mike. Attempting to patch this issue with something called a "negative balance watcher" is a huge red flag.

prisma

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Trading is back on!

MysticalPotato

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Stop the potato genocide!

Quote from: Warren on March 04, 2014, 02:54:55 PM

I agree that there are several unanswered questions such as:[/b]

1. Why has a warning not yet been prominently placed on the site to deter further deposits?

2. What is the confirmed address that the funds were sent to, and how much was stolen?

3. Why has no warning email been sent to all registered users informing them of the security breach?

I think the first point is an extremely valid question. People who are unaware of recent developments should be made aware of what they are walking into, instead of suddenly being surprised with the inability to trade or withdraw after making a deposit.

Edit: An advisory just went up on the balance page. Nice.

vlight

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I was able to withraw muh altcoin. Thanks Cool

timmmers

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Quote from: adhitthana on March 04, 2014, 05:25:57 PM

Quote from: EuroTrash on March 04, 2014, 05:10:43 PM

Busoni, can you answer this one single question please:
Did you implement transaction atomicity on withdrawals or not?

Eurotrash, can you explain transaction atomicity, or link to somewhere that does?

About 10 pages back in this thread

adhitthana

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Quote from: EuroTrash on March 04, 2014, 05:10:43 PM

Busoni, can you answer this one single question please:
Did you implement transaction atomicity on withdrawals or not?

Eurotrash, can you explain transaction atomicity, or link to somewhere that does?

Pete_Time4Meat

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Nice job mate!

+1

EuroTrash

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Busoni, can you answer this one single question please:

Did you implement transaction atomicity on withdrawals or not?

scrap

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i deposited some KDC over 1 hour ago and it hasnt shown up yet, not even unconfirmed.

810a84a7cf8f637ea9ae7459f18a270d51f88a7a625ebe5248c0d2557a6b4d05 - TxID

Please look into this?

PoCoMo

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This blows bigtime. Shafted by Gox and now this.

If you go the shares route allow us to sell them. You could give us the 12.5% in poloniexCoins and let us sell them. Dividend would be paid out according to number of polCoins. Buybacks too.

MinermanNC

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Hey just read your post on the issue. Thank you for being straight forward as to what happened and not hiding in silence as so many do. I will go with the flow and will continue to trade on your exchange so long as you do what you say, which by the way" you have with other issues. lets get it behind us, the sooner the better and make it right to those who have took a hit on BTC balance.
Good Luck!
MMNC

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Quote from: jtpeters on March 04, 2014, 03:36:32 PM

Quote from: stereotype on March 04, 2014, 03:31:20 PM

Quote from: jtpeters on March 04, 2014, 03:27:11 PM

Quote from: dspearce on March 04, 2014, 03:17:49 PM

+1 Dev

Dev you have been open and honest from the start. Admitting liability and working your hardest to fix this. I have lost BTC in C-Cex and here now. But I must say you have been far more open and honest about not only what happened but how you plan to remedy the situation. Your message about the issue I think also deserves a lot of credit, whilst C-cex has been better than Mt. Gox, I fear their reputation will eventually see them close.

Good work Dev, I will certainly keep using your exchange. For all the users moaning - I suggest you go play on the regulated stock and Fx markets or STFU!

It's funny that you mention them because there's no mention of any problem on their website, either: https://c-cex.com/

Mt. Gox, Coinmarket, C-Cex

Sensing a pattern?

No. Its all in your head.

I suppose you cannot come up with an intelligent or logical argument so personal attacks will suffice.

"You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!"

Let's get back to being constructive, though we do not agree on all of our constructions. (But I suppose the lesser of us will continue the personal attacks while avoiding the elephant in the room.)

You can stop typing now. Thanks

busoni

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Owner of Poloniex

Please vote at this poll: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/poll-how-to-deal-with-stolen-btc-on-poloniex-500578

I just want to make sure we don't prefer option 3 before opening withdrawals, otherwise it's ready.

rramires

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I would send today 3BTC to buy LTC, but something told me to send 0.1 BTC today for testing. They're in my account 0.1BTC. I think que is standard.

Queue, queue, queue ... that's right!
I developed a system of payments for the game and queuing processes and recording all log, I finally able to sleep soundly.

Another idea I've not seen in exchanges, after login, where people confirm checkbox they received your coins. It would be necessary, for each address, send a small value and confirm it has received.
Only after confirming, first checked in blockchain after the checkbox by own user, could make new withdrawals for different addresses.

As a developer I feel for you. It is terrible when something like this happens.

anonuser777

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My balance has gone negative. I had very little BTC available before the hack, but had a few buy orders denominated in BTC. Looks like about 12% of the total BTC in my account has been removed (hence the negative balance). The buy orders are still there untouched.

EDIT: One of the buy orders has now been cancelled and I have a positive balance.

The One

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Quote from: jtpeters on March 04, 2014, 03:31:15 PM

Quote from: The One on March 04, 2014, 03:28:18 PM

Has anyone checked their BTC amount on Poloniex.....mine gone down by 12% to 15%.

It looks like the reduction is happening.

Is it 12.3% for you? Or more than that?

Not sure exactly as not sure exactly what i had before as didn't write all 8 numbers after decimal. All i saw was 9 became 8 hence knew the reduction was being processed.

sleepless

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“Crypto Depository Receipts”

Quote from: mikeyfinn on March 04, 2014, 04:00:34 PM

Ok, so my balance went down by 12.3% btc. No problem. Why are withdrawals still frozen?

Maybe he's working on the withdrawal-bug which caused all theses problems? Roll Eyes

mikeyfinn

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Ok, so my balance went down by 12.3% btc. No problem. Why are withdrawals still frozen?

visji

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Quote from: jtpeters on March 04, 2014, 02:11:43 PM

Quote from: tf2honeybadger on March 04, 2014, 02:08:52 PM

Poloniex just tweeted:
"Deposits credited since announcement will be temporarily reversed to avoid unfair deductions. They will be reprocessed soon."
https://twitter.com/Poloniex/status/440925782756446208

When someone that has posted above regarding their deposit gets their deposit back please post about it here.

I have put on a deposit for btc this morning (after the btc were stolen) and i just received my bitcoins.
To all people that have put btc on poloniex take a look if you received your coins.

Also i would like to point out that some people here are (morons)! do you have any idea how fragile this market can be and how many people are actually
trying to get rich quick. there are flaws in the system and someone will always be able to find a way to benefit from them.

Now if you all think at MTgox for 1 second you should be going to this owners house and kiss his feat for doing what he is doing instead of closing the market and say fuck you all i dont give a shit.
sure you lost 12.3% or something now but it is always better then losing everything, he is even looking to help everybody that lost something.

If you cant bare this, losing money, or waiting for a verifcation please go away and get a job!

Morphling4047

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Ok mate, I believe you and you have my suport.

I'm only 0.01BTC less on my balances on poloniex, so no big deal. If it can be fefunded, ok, if not, well, at least you were honest. Will keep seeing the improvemnts.

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