Hackers pull off £8,000 Bitcoin heist

Hackers pull off £8,000 Bitcoin heist (Wired

wired.co.uk 08 Mar '13, 11am

Hackers pull off £8,000 Bitcoin heist

A Bitcoin transaction services company says that hackers broke into one of its brokerage accounts last week, nabbing more than $12,000 (£7,965) 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 4 March 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 a...

Full article: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/08/bitcoin-heist

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Bad guys steal $12K of Bitcoin after using simple social mining to hijack DNS of Bitcoin exchanger BitInstant: [link]
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"With control of the DNS, the bad guys also had control over Bitinstant's email. " - [link]
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Hackers Pull Off Â£8,000 Bitcoin Heist - They broke into one of its brokerage accounts… [link]
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