HashTalk.ch claims to be owned by companies which do NOT EXIST in the locations they publish!
Hashtalk.ch is an online forum.
The forum collects certain information: A username, A password, an email address, your IP address (each time you visit or login) as well as additional analytics information.
The forum has no privacy policy and no terms of service. This allows the forum owners to do whatever they wish with your information.
This should not be a big deal, let's just look up who the owners are:
Who owns this website? GAW Miners? The PayCoin Foundation? Adam Matlack? Homero Joshua Garza?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gaw-josh-garza-discussion-paycoin-xpy-xpyio-ion-ionomy-always-make-money-857670
Who owns this website? GAW Miners? The PayCoin Foundation? Adam Matlack? Homero Joshua Garza?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10697415
Who owns this website? GAW Miners? Homero Joshua Garza? Crypto Private Investors Group CPIG?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11269828
Who owns this website? An email sent to all emails listed on the site, without the permission of the users states that the site changed ownership:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11264224
More on the move: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11259222 https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11259246
Some users who requested to be removed from the sites mailing list and have their personal information removed report violations of state and federal CAN-SPAM laws: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11264262
The latest ownership change message lists the owner as:
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Crypto Private Investor Group
34 E Dudley Town Rd
Bloomfield, CT 06002
34 E Dudley Town Rd
Bloomfield, CT 06002
Unfortunately that address is now vacant per the listing agent: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11264490
Also Crypto Private Investor Group reports in relation to their domains that they are located in California at a virtual mailing center (it's like a post office box, anonymous): https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11269828
The California secretary of state reports no entities registered under CPIG, Crypto Private Investor(s) group or other permutations.
http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/
The Connecticut secretary of state reports no entities registered under CPIG, Crypto Private Investor(s) group or other permutations.
http://www.concord-sots.ct.gov/CONCORD/online?sn=PublicInquiry&eid=9740
Google Search: how to prevent my domain from being seized by the sec
The same site which collects personal information with no privacy policy also now supports ads. This will lead to more information being exposed to the sites unknown owners which they may use for whatever legitimate or nefarious purposes they chose.
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https://hashtalk.ch/topic/37304/hashtalk-now-has-ads-but-it-is-now-independent
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