Topic: Nearly 700,000 websites are hacked in bid to steal cryptocurrency (Read 345 times)

This is very dangerous for investors, we do not have a safe place to store our assets. What's the solution? I was afraid to continue investing in crypto.

Ahh ok, that makes more sense. Because I was comparing the numbers to BuiltWith and other sites, and they weren't matching up.

That's Web pages, not websites. * IE: The 700,000 quote is including multiple pages on 1 website. So that quote is wayyyyy off.

https://www.wappalyzer.com/technologies/statcounter
Wappalyzer is reporting around 60,000~

On a side note, the amount of users on this thread dumping "shouldn't have been using online wallets" spam is astounding; even though it's completely irrelevant.

Yeah may be majority of big investors are afraid to enter but not all of them, check the market cap of cryptos it is now around $211,087,421,197, that means still we have big investors in the market.
Scammers and hackers are always there even in the traditional market, even in online banking there involves huge risk, in fact cryptos are more secure in every aspect than online banking if user is fully aware of it.

Bitcoin itself is a protocol that is virtually impervious to hacking because if harmed the items hackers want to steal become worthless.

Bitcoin wallets are just public domain application software. The source code is readily available. Exploits against bitcoin wallets are so easily preventable that no one should ever become a victim. The problem is created when lazy people want convenience and sacrifice security to get it.

The problem with altturds (cryptocurrencies other than bitcoin) is they are created by sharks whose self interest eliminates the ability to trust the coin. Roger Ver doesn’t adore BCH because he loves bitcoin. He wants to be king of the hill again. Does anyone believe J.P Morgan Chase, Microsoft and Intel invested in Ethereum for altruistic reasons? No, they want to be at the front of the line when it’s time to fleece the sheep. I hope they get hacked to death. Do you really feel safe using crime coins like Monero? If there was ever a coin waiting for government attack it’s Monero. Most altturds are just so stupid it’s hard to believe they really exist. Mooncoin? Seriously? One coin for each millimeter of distance from the earth to the moon? If you put real money in altturds Darwin is going to catch up with you eventually and ensure you stay on the bottom of the food chain.

Unfortunately, it is a pity that people are faced with the activities of hackers and still have not come up with ways that can 100% protect users from identity theft and funds stored in crypto-wallets.Regarding your post, you are not quite correctly displayed the news. Because as literally on the site it is written like this:Up to 700,000 web pages were targeted in the hack which primarily aimed to steal cryptocurrency through a malicious script.https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/statcounter-700000-websites-hacked-cryptocurrency/Ie not hacked but were aimed at hacking.

I doubt such a huge number of website can be hacked in just to steal cryptocurrency. Any security website won't ever put cryptocurrency or access to its assets online but will keep it on hard wallet or cold storage which will make it impossible to take it assets away if even hackers succeed in breaking into a website.

Since all losses fall onto the affected individuals, people must take any measure to make wheir wallets inaccessible by hackers. Before this kind of concerns will be solved  many people would not consider to enter the crypto market. I think, it is very important that cryptocurrency exchanges must give users complete security of funds storage.

Many sites experience piracy that is true but not all piracy is doing harmful hacking. The 700K website is fake, even when there are rumors of an exchange being hacked, it makes bitcoin down. This idea is bad but actually, there are even news orders that aim for free advertising. If indeed you are afraid of your wallet being hacked, make your assets into a paper wallet.

I still kind of surprised that someone can only think of destroying what others has build instead of using that precious time to build some thing reasonable too to make the world a better place, but have decide to go other way and they can even get rich more than what they expect if only they do the right thing and go in a right part.

if it will be the issue then it will affect the market on both side, the positive way those hackers can control the market but when they want to crash the market then the price will drop and the worst thing those investors will turn their back on cryptocurrency.

that is the reason no one should keep all his/her coins in exchanges and on-line wallets. Paper wallet and hardware wallets are safe.

Here you go:


The malicous part of the script is also shown in the article. There were also no (reportedly) lost funds, apparently.

TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if he just googled the amount of websites using StatCounter.

There's another article here: https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/11/07/hackers-infiltrate-600k-websites-through-statcounter-in-search-of-bitcoin/

Not entirely sure where this 700,000 number is coming from.

meh, this is one of the many bullshits that this site publishes and the owners keep on advertising their links on this forum. it basically talking about those malicious JavaScript scripts that can be run on some web pages that can do malicious stuff on a computer of the person that visits them. 700k is also probably an imaginary number by the author and also it is talking about web pages not web sites! so that is weird enough.

is there an agenda in the article to make people scared of crypto?
crypto gets so much negative attention about things that are already happening for fiat!
paypal accounts are hacked, various website accounts are hacked and sold, email adresses etc, naturally people will try to steal crypto just as the same people would try to steal bank accounts.

this time hacking is more focused on getting assets in the form of bitcoin or other coins, if this continues, what happens is that the price of the hacked coin can fall due to the amount of instant sell or sell orders even in separate markets

news about the hacks always upset me because I do not want to wake up one day and understand that my account was hacked and my money was taken

It is very important that cryptocurrency exchanges give users complete security of funds storage.

News about hacking cryptocurrency exchanges greatly affects the rate of cryptocurrency

usually when reading this stuff... later comes how the then unknown exchange promotes that they have insured customers funds and that customers wont leave at a loss...

i find many exchanges ABUSE the "we been hacked" narrative just to get publicity. and then try to make a comeback saying they are now the most secure exchange due to it. and then they just ride the gravy train of free press
(in reality they had little to no customers and so saying a hack occured costs them nothing)

never heard of the exchange mentioned so id be more inclined to say that its a new exchange looking for some free press
(whois reveals yep only a few months old.. not even a year)
(analytics reveals under 2k unique visits......... compare that to coinbase of over 700k)

Yeah that is what I am thinking. Investors will invest and will never trade it back. If they are targeting crypto currencies then they are safe for that moment since they will be in USD for buying it.
Now, once they bought it, they can easily get out and leave it in a hard wallet for a long time. I do think that is what an investor really means.

Getting caught in a hack by staying your crypto currencies in an exchange is not the best way to store it. Investors do store not trade it back after a few hours.

Plus that could just be connected websites with one attack, they are really targeting one website after all.