Is this relative/relevant?
http://boingboing.net/2011/06/08/ocean-bank-lost-3000.htmlOcean Bank, which allowed hackers to withdraw more than $300,000 from a customer's account, won't have to cover the loss. A Maine judge said its account security was "not optimal," but ultimately ruled for it because hackers obtained account credentials using malicious software installed on the customer's computers. Ocean asserted that its due diligence was covered by verifying a password.
Not at all. This is not a case where just a customer's account was hacked.
I guess this would be a perfect time to ask the operators of every single Bitcoin exchange if they have a backup of their database. Each and every one of them should go on record stating that they do. I suggest that this should be done within the next 48 hours. Any exchange that does not go on record in stating that they do within this time frame, users of those exchanges should immediately remove their funds from those exchanges.
~Bruno~
We're not an exchange, but I'll go on record as saying that Bitcointalk.org has daily backups mirrored to
at least 2 different locations other than the datacenter that we're hosted at. This is in addition to industry standard backup and recovery solutions deployed onsite.
Yes, believe it or not, but your posts and PMs on this forum are actually better preserved than your current balance at Bitcoinica.
Dude, that means I'm/we're counting to 63,000,000 with images in that Newbie thread. That'll take forever!
I guess this would be a perfect time to ask the operators of every single Bitcoin exchange if they have a backup of their database. Each and every one of them should go on record stating that they do. I suggest that this should be done within the next 48 hours. Any exchange that does not go on record in stating that they do within this time frame, users of those exchanges should immediately remove their funds from those exchanges.
~Bruno~
they need daily off-site backups at the very least, not just a (single) backup. these daily backups should be kept very safe as well
I guess that's what I meant--proper backups. While we're at it, I think all backups should be open-source so that we can all see that they're backup. We're going to see them anyway, but at least then a hacker wouldn't have anything to do, unless they all pooled their resources and hacked via adding funds to databases, coupled with becoming Grammar Nazis.