Hackers Pull Off $12,000 Bitcoin Heist

Hackers Pull Off $12,000 Bitcoin Heist | Wired Enterprise

wired.com 07 Mar '13, 8pm

Hackers Pull Off $12,000 Bitcoin Heist

A Bitcoin transaction services company says that hackers broke into one of its brokerage accounts last week, nabbing more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency. That attack knocked Bitinstant offline over the weekend. The company says that while it lost Bitcoins, no customers were affected by the hack. The criminals were able to take control of Bitinstant’s internet domains by convincing its domain registrar, Site5, to hand over control of the company’s Domain Name Service, or DNS. “Armed with knowledge of my place of birth and mother’s maiden name alone (both facts easy to locate on the public record) they convinced Site5 staff to add their email address to the account and make it the primary login,” the company said Monday in a blog post detailing the incident . With control of the DNS, the bad guys also had control over Bitinstant’s email. They then did an online p...

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@ErebusBat » 02 Apr '13, 10pm
@SGgrc another security flaw with maiden names, 12k bit coin loss: [link]
@greytheo » 26 Mar '13, 4pm
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@Peterhous » 11 Mar '13, 10pm
@celtichare Bitinstant and hopefully others now using multi-factor authentication [link]
@XVagg » 11 Mar '13, 6pm
Hackers pull off Bitcoin heist. Damn you digital George Clooney! [link] @amsecproject @MatthewRWallin #bitcoins
@Kennedys_Intel » 11 Mar '13, 8am
I've been telling people for ages not to use their mothers maiden name as a password reset! prime example why here. [link]
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$12,000 Bitcoin Heist | [link] -> Sigh. Used to be you learned to back up when you lost a hard drive, higher stakes now.
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"Hackers Pull Off $12,000 Bitcoin Heist" [link] ouch
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#Bitcoin bank robbed. [link] Why would a bitcoin bank need to exist again ?
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“@WiredEnterprise: [link]” the interesting part here is called Bitcoins. Don't ask what ze French would make out of that ;-)
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The heist goes digital! > Hackers Pull Off $12,000 Bitcoin Heist - [link] via @wired
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@Lgn8412 » 09 Mar '13, 5pm
Tecnología | En ese contexto, se perpetró un ataque en contra de esa moneda, llevandose alrededor de $12000. [link]
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@ArtturiNurmi » 09 Mar '13, 11am
@bitcoininfo What happened here: [link]
@yeleekneb » 09 Mar '13, 7am
Social engineering allows take over of DNS and theft of Bitcoins #infosec [link]
@NathanaelOMG » 09 Mar '13, 5am
Some hackers just stole $12,000 worth of digital currency. Not sure if win, or fail. [link] #Hacking #Security
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Hackers Pull Off $12,000 Bitcoin Heist | Wired Enterprise | Wiredcom: A Bitcoin transaction services ... [link] #bitcoin
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@jonmatonis @maxkeiser @stacyherbert [link] I dont know BITCOIN is SUSPECT right now. They've been hacked again...
@pfretty » 08 Mar '13, 11pm
We all need to learn to take security risks seriously. [link]
@maeghith » 08 Mar '13, 10pm
Roban Bitcoins por valor de 12000 USD, y este es otro motivo para *mentir* en las preguntas de seguridad. [link]
@JartoYa » 08 Mar '13, 10pm
Bitcoin dice q los piratas informáticos irrumpieron en una d sus cuentas y robaron $12.000 valor de la moneda digital [link]
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If one "hacks" a #bitcoin exchange site does that equate to robbing a bank? hmmm [link]
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Two sides of the bitcoin "hack" Wired: [link] Site5: [link]
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