Instawallet/Bitcoin-Central Security Breach - page 4.

Joost

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Quote from: HATA28 on April 05, 2013, 11:15:03 AM

The whole thing with bitcoin-central and paytunia is taking too long.
They better bring them back online ASAP, they've got 40minutes to bring up bitcoin-central back online before the 48hour deadline is reached (again).

They just broke this deadline (again). I'm really looking forward to their update now.. it better be good Undecided

HATA28

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The whole thing with bitcoin-central and paytunia is taking too long.
They better bring them back online ASAP, they've got 40minutes to bring up bitcoin-central back online before the 48hour deadline is reached (again).

steelboy

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I just got someone to answer on this number

Administrative Contact:
W3BFLOWS SARL
FRANCOIS Michel
34 rue Charles Chefson
Bois Colombes, 92270
FR
+33.672332684
[email protected]

His name wasn't Michel Francois. He said he worked on a project with a friend of a friend. He sounded like he knew David Francois (the number someone (Hous?)spoke to Davout on and that Michel is his father?

He seemed to find the whole thing amusing that I had his number and knew about the hack in general. Seemed genuine but strange his number is listed.

Huh

Joost

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But is there any news on Bitcoin Central yet? You mentioned 48 hours, then another 48 hours and a 24 hour announcement. Seeing as there has been no such announcement yet, the second 48 hours is going to be crossed as well..

Please focus on communications a bit more. It's quite frustrating to see only so few updates, especially when instawallet is under such pressure.

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e-ducat.fr

If you are the owner of an instawallet balance, check out this topic I just opened:
Instawallet claim process

tvbcof

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Quote from: greyhawk on April 04, 2013, 11:43:36 AM

Quote from: steelboy on April 04, 2013, 11:17:30 AM

C'est pas problem. Je parle francais.

Alors tu fais. Mais savez tu aussi parler Darija?

This is what I learned about France in school (with google translation.) Typical American education.

Il est un pays qui s'appelle la France
où les femmes ne portent pas de pantalon
Et les hommes se promener
avec leur ding-dong traîner.

Translated back, it loses some of it's rhyme. It came with a catchy little tune which is probably why I remembered it. Maybe it was subtly planted by French infiltrators to provoke future tourism?

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Quote from: steelboy on April 04, 2013, 11:17:30 AM

C'est pas problem. Je parle francais.

Alors tu fais. Mais savez tu aussi parler Darija?

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Quote from: psilos on April 04, 2013, 09:59:30 AM

Quote from: DobZombie on April 04, 2013, 09:51:56 AM

I did read the whole thread. I've been following it post by post for the last few days.

I'm just pissed off that the bitcoins I put in bitcoin-central are going to take 90+ days to get back to me because the owners other business was badly designed.

see my issue now?

Your account balances (EUR, USD, GBP and BTC) were not affected by the service interruption.

This is the latest update in bitcoin-central

It did say the same thing on bitcoin-central as it did on Instawallet web site. At the time of posting what I said was correct. This has now been changed.

Quote from: d5000 on April 04, 2013, 10:40:30 AM

Yes, in the last hours sometimes http://bitcoin-central.net showed the "Instawallet" message. Now they have changed it to the correct message (for the services Paytunia and Bitcoin-Central).

I'm a little less worried now

steelboy

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Quote from: greyhawk on April 04, 2013, 11:05:37 AM

Quote from: steelboy on April 04, 2013, 10:05:23 AM

Quote from: psilos on April 04, 2013, 10:00:25 AM

Are you sure you know where their offices are?

No.

Bad neighborhood. Better take some resilient people along.

Quote from: greyhawk on April 04, 2013, 11:05:37 AM

Quote from: steelboy on April 04, 2013, 10:05:23 AM

Quote from: psilos on April 04, 2013, 10:00:25 AM

Are you sure you know where their offices are?

No.

Bad neighborhood. Better take some resilient people along.

Quote from: greyhawk on April 04, 2013, 11:05:37 AM

Quote from: steelboy on April 04, 2013, 10:05:23 AM

Quote from: psilos on April 04, 2013, 10:00:25 AM

Are you sure you know where their offices are?

No.

Bad neighborhood. Better take some resilient people along.

Lol. C'est pas problem. Je parle francais.

greyhawk

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Quote from: steelboy on April 04, 2013, 10:05:23 AM

Quote from: psilos on April 04, 2013, 10:00:25 AM

Are you sure you know where their offices are?

No.

Bad neighborhood. Better take some resilient people along.

d5000

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Quote from: DobZombie on April 04, 2013, 09:51:56 AM

I did read the whole thread. I've been following it post by post for the last few days.

I'm just pissed off that the bitcoins I put in bitcoin-central are going to take 90+ days to get back to me because the owners other business was badly designed.

see my issue now?

Yes, in the last hours sometimes http://bitcoin-central.net showed the "Instawallet" message. Now they have changed it to the correct message (for the services Paytunia and Bitcoin-Central).

splat44

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Here the latest:

In next few days account refund process will begin as explained below:

- Will accept refund in first 90 days, be sure you kave your wallet url and key
- Account having less than 50BTC will be refunded
- Claims for wallets that hold a balance greater than 50 BTC will be processed on a case by case and best efforts basis.

Above came from: https://www.instawallet.org/

steelboy

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Quote from: psilos on April 04, 2013, 10:00:25 AM

Quote from: steelboy on April 04, 2013, 09:49:24 AM

I wonder if going to Paris and trying to visit their office would be any use.

I live in the south of the UK and a trip on the Eurostar would be about 1.5 btc at the moment. If there are any other bitcointalk members who have lost maybe we could make a trip of it and see what we can find out.

Any donations from other members further afield to cover costs/wages lost from work would be great. And in my case if I get my money back would be repaid in full

I can assure you my time would be spent standing outside their offices until I get seen and not drinking espresso by the seine.

Seriously though, I think for he cost involved it can only be a good idea to get a bit of info.

Are you sure you know where their offices are?

No. But the phone number above got through to Davout and as mentioned before the board members seem credible. Got to be worth a few hundred quid to find out.

psilos

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Quote from: steelboy on April 04, 2013, 09:49:24 AM

I wonder if going to Paris and trying to visit their office would be any use.

I live in the south of the UK and a trip on the Eurostar would be about 1.5 btc at the moment. If there are any other bitcointalk members who have lost maybe we could make a trip of it and see what we can find out.

Any donations from other members further afield to cover costs/wages lost from work would be great. And in my case if I get my money back would be repaid in full

I can assure you my time would be spent standing outside their offices until I get seen and not drinking espresso by the seine.

Seriously though, I think for he cost involved it can only be a good idea to get a bit of info.

Are you sure you know where their offices are?

psilos

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Quote from: DobZombie on April 04, 2013, 09:51:56 AM

Quote from: psilos on April 04, 2013, 09:21:58 AM

Quote from: DobZombie on April 04, 2013, 09:14:27 AM

I understand that instawallet was a piece of shit and needed to close but...

What the fork has that got to do with bitcoin-central?!?

I just put some BTCBTCBTC in there.

I go to the bitcoin-central page and it now says INSTAWALLET at the top of it.

This stinks of bullshit

Guys, just try to stay calm and read the whole thread before posting and blaming.

The safest conlusion so far is that indeed bitcoin-central and instawallet suffered from hacker`s attack and they are working towards a solution....and this takes time. We are not dealing with a multi-national company or bank which can restore theirs system in few hours . So be patient.

I did read the whole thread. I've been following it post by post for the last few days.

I'm just pissed off that the bitcoins I put in bitcoin-central are going to take 90+ days to get back to me because the owners other business was badly designed.

see my issue now?

What makes you say that " I m just pissed off that the bitcoins I put in bitcoin-central are going to take 90+ days to get back to me because the owners other business was badly designed." ?

Your account balances (EUR, USD, GBP and BTC) were not affected by the service interruption.

This is the latest update in bitcoin-central

DobZombie

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Quote from: psilos on April 04, 2013, 09:21:58 AM

Quote from: DobZombie on April 04, 2013, 09:14:27 AM

I understand that instawallet was a piece of shit and needed to close but...

What the fork has that got to do with bitcoin-central?!?

I just put some BTCBTCBTC in there.

I go to the bitcoin-central page and it now says INSTAWALLET at the top of it.

This stinks of bullshit

Guys, just try to stay calm and read the whole thread before posting and blaming.

The safest conlusion so far is that indeed bitcoin-central and instawallet suffered from hacker`s attack and they are working towards a solution....and this takes time. We are not dealing with a multi-national company or bank which can restore theirs system in few hours . So be patient.

I did read the whole thread. I've been following it post by post for the last few days.

I'm just pissed off that the bitcoins I put in bitcoin-central are going to take 90+ days to get back to me because the owners other business was badly designed.

see my issue now?

steelboy

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Activity: 756

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I wonder if going to Paris and trying to visit their office would be any use.

I live in the south of the UK and a trip on the Eurostar would be about 1.5 btc at the moment. If there are any other bitcointalk members who have lost maybe we could make a trip of it and see what we can find out.

Any donations from other members further afield to cover costs/wages lost from work would be great. And in my case if I get my money back would be repaid in full

I can assure you my time would be spent standing outside their offices until I get seen and not drinking espresso by the seine.

Seriously though, I think for he cost involved it can only be a good idea to get a bit of info.

tvbcof

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Quote from: DavinciJ15 on April 04, 2013, 09:11:06 AM

Quote from: Joost on April 04, 2013, 07:43:24 AM

Keep your calm and learn to read.

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In the next few days we are going to open the claim process for Instawallet balance holders to claim the funds they had stored before the service interruption.

Thanks but you know how it is when your upset you read it but your brain did not register it.

I've deliberately not used my instawallet URL until some word that the claims process is in place. I want to know what info is going to be required, then 'log on' one time and get it done with.

What is annoying is that ~davout mentions that the first claimant will be given preference, but does not say when things will be ready.

One thing that these guys might think about doing would be to allow users to PM or e-mail them with a heads-up that they are going to be filing a claim for XYZ wallet. For us user who had one wallet that should reduce fraud quite a bit (under a situation where an attacker managed to get a hold of a large collection of URL's somehow.)

psilos

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Quote from: DobZombie on April 04, 2013, 09:14:27 AM

I understand that instawallet was a piece of shit and needed to close but...

What the fork has that got to do with bitcoin-central?!?

I just put some BTCBTCBTC in there.

I go to the bitcoin-central page and it now says INSTAWALLET at the top of it.

This stinks of bullshit

Guys, just try to stay calm and read the whole thread before posting and blaming.

The safest conlusion so far is that indeed bitcoin-central and instawallet suffered from hacker`s attack and they are working towards a solution....and this takes time. We are not dealing with a multi-national company or bank which can restore theirs system in few hours . So be patient.

DobZombie

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Former curator of The Bitcoin Museum

I understand that instawallet was a piece of shit and needed to close but...

What the fork has that got to do with bitcoin-central?!?

I just put some BTCBTCBTC in there.

I go to the bitcoin-central page and it now says INSTAWALLET at the top of it.

This stinks of bullshit

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