Hacker Steals $12,000 Worth Of Bitcoins In Brazen DNS-Based Attack: A Bitcoin brokerage, Bitinstant was hit by...

Hacker Steals $12,000 Worth Of Bitcoins In Brazen DNS-Based Attack

techcrunch.com 08 Mar '13, 6pm

Hacker Steals $12,000 Worth Of Bitcoins In Brazen DNS-Based Attack: A Bitcoin brokerage, Bitinstant was hit by...

A Bitcoin brokerage, Bitinstant was hit by hackers who used a bit of social engineering to take control of the company’s DNS servers and ultimately funnel out $12,000 worth of Bitcoins. Hackers first took over the Bitinstant’s DNS domains and then the company’s email servers. They used these to log into another Bitcoin exchange, VirWox, and pull out $12,480 worth of Bitcoin out of a Bitinstant account. The company detailed the hack in a blog post last week , noting that no “personal or transactional information has been leaked.” Based on their general MO, the attacker is not highly technically skilled but is sneaky enough to cover their tracks. Some of the hosting providers they directed our domain at may have billing information, but such billing information is likely a stolen card. Geographically, I would personally suspect them to be Russian, based on the choice of prov...

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@bitrific » 29 Mar '13, 11pm
SE or Hackers?: [link] Read this wow..... that sucks... do we know this guy who lost his Coins? [link]
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$12,000 Bitcoin stolen / social-engineered from Bitinstant. [link]
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