Topic: IOTA: Snake oil insecurity with a centralized kill switch to shut off your money (Read 2196 times)

Thank you for your support.

Thank you for your suggestion. I have gone to discord and the problem is investigated by the team. Now I need to have patience...

Sorry to hear that, hope you will get those back. I would recommend to go into their Discord, present your case there and talk to someone from IF. Afaik David will compensate affected users, but be prepared to be asked to deliver detailed proof and also various documents for KYC.

I am a victim of the hack of february 2020 I have lost 35Gi. Is there anything I can do ?

Thank you for your support. I will keep on posting here the main findings.

I hope you have success in your investigations and hope you post updates here as and when you able to.

Nice.
What I read about Dominik, it is really fantastic Congratulation!

Many thx Hund! I am curious what coming next.

Circumstantial evidence points to Dominik Schiener, co-founder of the IOTA Foundation, being the criminal hacker known as Cystomatic aka. Alhalama.

Several pieces of evidence show the connection between the hacker Cystomatic (aka. Alhalama) and Dominik Schiener:

• Cystomatic created a MySpace account with the name "Dominik Schiener".
• Cystomatic announced a social media marketing project similar to Fileyy.com, Dominik Schiener's first startup.
• Cystomatic announced plans to relocate his Affiliate Marketing business (Fileyy.com?) to Malta. As Dominik Schiener, Cystomatic is Italian, speaks German, is a precocious entrepreneur, is working on an Internet Marketing project and is fond of tax havens.
• Cystomatic requests quote to create the logo for Fileyy.com. The winning logo was the same used by Fileyy.com and by Dominik Schiener in his LinkedIn page.

The following evidence shows that Cystomatic changed his name to Alhalama and, therefore, Cystomatic and Alhalama are the same person.

• In the Hack Forums, Cystomatic says "Nice, tell me again how much of a marketer you are, and how long your crypter will stay FUD". Cystomatic later changes his username to "Alhalama". However, another user has already quoted Cystomatic's sentence and, as a result, the connection between both usernames is revealed.
  
• Alhalama contact details are the same as Cystomatic's.

Crimes committed by Cystomatic aka. Alhalama include hacking and defacing websites, installing keyloggers, selling administration logins, selling site databases, and buying, using and selling remote access trojans.

• Alhalama hacks 11 sites on 6 June 2011.
• Alhalama defaces 2 sites on 12 June 2011.
• Alhalama hacks 1 site on 13 June 2011.
• Alhalama sells site admin logins and databases on 18 June 2011.
• Alhalama celebrates his success using the Rapzo Keylogger on 21 June 2011.
• Alhalama sells a Blackshades VPN and Blackshades RAT. Blackshades infects the victim's computer when the victim visits a malicious webpage (drive-by download). The FBI run operations in 2012 and 2014 to combat the use of Blackshades, which led to the arrest of near 100 people in 19 countries.

After starting IOTA, Dominik Schiener described his hacking experience:

The IOTA community and investors have the right to know this information. I have posted it in r/Iota and r/IOTAmarkets but the posts have been removed.

Sources:

• https://twitter.com/Hund_cleanIOTA/status/1274982149024878593
• https://steemit.com/crypto/@thinkexclamation/co-founder-of-iota-suspected-to-be-a-criminal-hacker
• https://www.notion.so/cleaniota/9961caf41c32421081b49564e08d4c23
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshades
• https://www.crisp-research.com/interview-mit-dominik-schiener-co-founder-von-iota-08-03-2017/
• https://youtu.be/EXjCqT-oK9M?t=55

Yes. There are several people who have contacted me and shared valuable information. Sometimes it doesn't lead to anything, other times they help a lot.

This is going to take time. There are many angles to explore.

I sent today some data i.e.
https://github.com/ifinta/iota-backups

How is the investigation going? Did many people send valuable information to you anonymously?

LOL. I'm not even involved with IOTA fondation. just invested in IOTA.

Just trying to fight misinformation. But go ahead, and try to frame me.

Sergey Ivancheglo has published the Memorandum of Understanding that the Board of Directors of the IOTA Foundation signed five days after the 2018 Board leak.

https://www.notion.so/cleaniota/IOTA-Foundation-0c96e7936c164dfe9e8ef1218fe0e13a#327e67a54a314fa9bea3619add62543d

The revelations included in this document, make the "MoU leak" as big as the 2018 "Board leak" and the 2020 "Breakup leak".

In the 2018 Board leak, Ralf Rottmann said: “Just thinking about all of the other stuff that will come to light, makes me extremely worried”.

He later addressed the concerns of the community about this sentence.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/95qi3b/just_thinking_about_all_of_the_other_stuff_that/e3vg700/

The MoU sheds light on why Ralf Rottmann was "extremely worried". He feared that, in his struggle to control the Board, David Sønstebø could reveal sensitive personal information about Dominik Schiener, co-founder of the IOTA Foundation.

/cleanIOTA-Board-of-Directors]http://[Suspicious link removed]/cleanIOTA-Board-of-Directors

The MoU refers to IOTA AS and Jinn Labs as two separate entities. This contradicts David Sønstebø's claim to disgruntled Jinn investors that "Jinn Labs is IOTA AS". The MoU was signed by David Sonstebo himself.

https://www.notion.so/cleaniota/823de8eb6bee4ba78026d429957018a0#b19c32f251494b3483504c8341c6031d

Dominik Schiener said in the 2018 Board leak: "good luck. IOTA AS will have some serious legal issues with the advisor tokens and the impending tax audit. I am done with this. I am done with being threatened."

https://pastebin.com/482HVvPu

To avoid potential tax issues, the MoU established that all the proceeds from the "Big Deal Fund" would be owned by "Schiener & Sønstebø GbR", an unregistered partnership, and used to fulfil the advisor token "verbal" agreements, without the intervention of IOTA AS or the IF.

The MoU confirms that the IOTA Foundation transferred 0.5% of the total supply of IOTA "unclaimed" Tokens to IOTA AS, a company owned by David Sønstebø.

The MoU refers in several occasions to Serguei Ivancheglo as a shareholder of IOTA AS. Together with Sergey Ivancheglo's employment contract with IOTA AS, this contradicts David Sønstebø's recent claims stating that David Sønstebø is the sole owner of IOTA AS.

https://www.notion.so/cleaniota/9d007a5d94a6400abe057c327e566b1c#45b186ba0e334161b91732979d05600b

https://www.notion.so/cleaniota/823de8eb6bee4ba78026d429957018a0#05e6300b145d4decb117c356f6378183

I submitted the news about the "MoU leak" to r/Iota and r/IOTAmarkets. Both submissions have been removed by the moderators.

https://www.reddit.com/user/Hund_cleanIOTA

IOTA investors and members of the IOTA Community have a right to know about the MoU leak.

David Sønstebø should resign from the IOTA Foundation as soon as possible, for the sake of decency and for the good of IOTA.

Hello,

My name is Hund.

I have decided to carry out an investigation into the management practices of the IOTA Foundation. I will be focusing on both potentially illegal and unethical behavior. The topics I am currently interested are the use of the IOTA Foundation resources for personal profit and the leadership practices of the members of the Board of Directors.

If you believe you have valuable information and wish to collaborate, please write to Hund at [email protected].

https://notion.so/cleaniota
https://notion.so/cleaniota/FAQ

David is a greedy and shady baboon, and CfB is a try-hard child that lacks the required expertise for cryptography related projects (although he just may be hurt from his friend succumbing to greediness). Got it. Thanks. I guess I will read it some time.

Hehe, hard to give It's a conversation from November 2019 until February 2020. It covers IOTA Foundation internal things like nepotism, political agendas, power abuse, monthly costs. You have hints about shady things with token reclaims, clean addresses, lots of money (IOTA tokens) changing hands. Discussions about the IOTA protocal in general and how companies/partners are more and more disappointed with non-results from IF. You can read how David wants/wanted to push his private companies; what role JINN plays in this whole construct. And last but not least two friends splitting up, where one (David) comes over as mature, while the other (CfB) acts like a child.

It's really an interesting read overall, because it gives an insight what happens behind the curtains of a crypto project. And I guess this does not only happen inside IOTA, but with lots of crypto projects - and in "real life" companies & politics.

Tl;dr version?

There are more and more voices wanting David Sønstebø to resign from IOTA Foundation. The driving force behind this is his ex-bff Sergey Ivancheglo aka Come-from-Beyond, who is butthurt about the IOTA protocol going in a different direction than he initially planned (mainly the binary vs trinary aspect).

Couple of weeks ago CfB already leaked a conversation between the two, which gives some interesting insight and additional information between the lines: What really happened before David Sonstebo and CFB parting ways (chat log)

In the Paracosm Discord a list popped up recently, which features an overview of "Potentially illegal or unethical behavior of the IOTA Foundation": https://www.notion.so/Potentially-illegal-or-unethical-behavior-of-the-IOTA-Foundation-83df131d43374a32be33ab15b38abdf8

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Additional information:

JINN is a ternary processor. JINN needs IOTA, that is why IOTA was built. JINN labs was founded by David, CfB and an unknown third guy. JINN is said to be dead now, investors lost their money. Announcement JINN

Paracosm is a VR/AR gaming company from CfB. He has a gaming background and the purpose of building IOTA was to make his VR/AR vision become reality.

IoTIFY is part of Ternary GmbH, which is a company from David, registered in Switzerland, where an Indian guy is CEO.

FYI: ... I asking the moderator of IOTA thread to act again to correct the project - to implement it as feasible wisely and not support "members", posts - scam others in the future ...


A "nice and respectful" environment on the twitter - around IOTA ...



And this "nice and respectful" environmnt is growing, and growing, and ... NICE. They are the "respectful" community???

Are you mean - ThatsABity doing a "witch hunts"? I think, it is the TRUTH, WELL. The "silly little loser" are the EU politicians, which supported IOTA? Sure also!!!