Looks like they fixed it by taking MH/s from marketplace buyers:
https://hashtalk.org/topic/11787/bought-2-25mh-primes-last-night-now-they-show-as-1mh
At first glance it looks like an api bug, like the one with disappearing hashlets. I can't see a reason to purposely change the picture. The first person to buy it would post the bug and stop all others from buying until it gets fixed.https://hashtalk.org/topic/11787/bought-2-25mh-primes-last-night-now-they-show-as-1mh
Not sure what you mean by changing the picture. This seems to be one of the users who bought the "hacked" 25 MH/s primes on the marketplace yesterday for $700+. Now it looks like he/she bought 1 Mh/s (not 25) for $700. Not the kind of fix you'd expect after a ~12 hour maintenance. There is still a chance though that the buyer will get a refund for the other 24 MH/s, perhaps just delayed along with payouts.
What is especially interesting (in a not-so-likely-coincidence kind of way) is that for this to happen: (1) somehow GAW "mistakenly" coded 1 mhs miners as 25 mhs miners, (2) which also means that sales of hashlets through resellers are not automated, and each hashlet requires a human being (who can make a mistake) to manually generate an activation code, (3) the same mistake was made repeatedly, and (4) the folks who received this bonus immediately sold back on the market (which, coincidentally, had just been opened) at an extra low price to ensure quick buys and then cashed out knowing they would be caught otherwise.
And who is left holding the bag (or the 1mhs hashlet that was purchased for $700 by some poor schmuck)? The innocent buyer.
Hmmm.
All this at a time right after the prime market is reopened and there are massive sudden withdrawals, run on the bank.
Hmmmm.
If I were one of those buyers, I would be getting lawyered up and getting subpeonas out to trace the accounts of the **sellers** and get access to the true facts about how this "mistake" was made, before the evidence disappears. It is extraordinarily unlikely that the events above transpired in the way GAW has said.
