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Title: "Phishing attempt on bitcointalk email addresses"
Post by: alani123 on June 03, 2016, 01:29:08 AM
Kraken sent out emails to warn about phishing citing the following Reddit post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4m3op0/psa_phishing_attempts_reported_today_kraken_re/

Any word from the admins here? Has there been a breach?

Title: Re: "Phishing attempt on bitcointalk email addresses"
Post by: notlist3d on June 03, 2016, 01:52:25 AM
Quote from: alani123 on June 03, 2016, 01:29:08 AM
Kraken sent out emails to warn about phishing citing the following Reddit post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4m3op0/psa_phishing_attempts_reported_today_kraken_re/

Any word from the admins here? Has there been a breach?

There was a big hack a while back when they turned off security questions, due to some of db's being copied. Don't know if they ever posted full extent it was big enough Theymos offered a sizable reward and switched hosts ( I believe it's been a while).

But I'm hoping if it truly is from here it's a old DB from that.   I don't think there has been any new successful attempts.

Title: Re: "Phishing attempt on bitcointalk email addresses"
Post by: alani123 on June 03, 2016, 02:37:59 AM
Quote from: notlist3d on June 03, 2016, 01:52:25 AM
Quote from: alani123 on June 03, 2016, 01:29:08 AM
Kraken sent out emails to warn about phishing citing the following Reddit post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4m3op0/psa_phishing_attempts_reported_today_kraken_re/

Any word from the admins here? Has there been a breach?

There was a big hack a while back when they turned off security questions, due to some of db's being copied. Don't know if they ever posted full extent it was big enough Theymos offered a sizable reward and switched hosts ( I believe it's been a while).

But I'm hoping if it truly is from here it's a old DB from that.   I don't think there has been any new successful attempts.
Perhaps it's related to the hack where social engineering with the ISP was involved. As reported by theymos here (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/36tqq4/bitcointalk_server_compromised_due_to_social/crh0swt). The post from Reddit I linked in the OP is stickied but there hasn't been confirmation that it was bitcointalk emails, it'd be usefull if someone could tell us if it's just a guess or there's good reason to believe that this phishing attempt is using emails leaked from bitcointalk.org.

Title: Re: "Phishing attempt on bitcointalk email addresses"
Post by: alani123 on June 04, 2016, 02:33:23 AM
The post is still stickied in the subreddit theymos admins but no word from him.


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