Next, before we go down the path of any type of malware let's think about this. I have 5 exchange accounts, 4 brokerage accounts, a retirement plan, an HSA, and two bank accounts. So let's pretend I did have malware on my computer. The hacker knew exactly which account to get into and that I didn't have 2FA? Because I haven't had an attempted log in or suspicious activity on any other account. They just got lucky that they honed in on just that one and that one only and it wasn't protected? That's pretty ridiculous thinking.
Well maybe because crypto is the only one that is untracable or rather very difficult to trace.
Finally, how does Hitbtc.com handle basic security? They can email you instantaneously for you to confirm your new account, but notifications for logins from a new ip get to you 1 hour after they occur? That's ironically pretty convenient for the person hacking your account, no? And no email confirmation for anything like confirming a withdrawal or a separate transactional password even though you already have an auto-confirmation email program set up for new account confirmations? That's also very convenient for a hacker, no? Pretty convenient also that many exchanges automatically enroll you in 2FA but they do not, no?
They do not automatically enroll you. How amny exchanges have you used? For the rest they should do better or lose clents
So sorry, I didn't use 2FA because I'm smart enough to know that there was no way anyone was going to be able to access my account....
Uh, not really that smart
On a final note, the domain Hitbtc.com is registered to a corporation call eNom. Ironically, you can Google eNom phishing and find a history of an operation called eNom coming up over 15 years in different parts of the world (as a marketing company, advertising company, etc.) and having customer information being hacked through a "phishing site".
That doesn't mean that Hitbtc works with eNom. That's silly. By the way they didn't say you accessed hiitbtc but that people miht have iven their details to them. So loggin in into your account doesn't have anything to do whether hiitbtc is still up or not. And if it was only up temporary that you might not be able to find it in Google, especially is they disallowed indexing of pages or if it was only 1 page it wouldn't have been indexed in Google anyway.
So no one can say who the real scammer is the exchange or a third party hacker. Anyway I'm staying away from Hitbtc because by the looks of it somethin isn't quite right with their security.