Bitcoin Forum

Read the news here:  https://www.hackread.com/hacked-bitcointalk-forum-database-on-dark-web/ (https://www.hackread.com/hacked-bitcointalk-forum-database-on-dark-web/)

The article is inaccurate, and we already knew that this database was floating around somewhere. That's why it was advised to change your email after the site recovered and Theymos sent out a mass mail informing people to do so.

Furthermore, this quote
is misleading. All of that except for password and email address are optional, can be anything, and are publicly viewable on the forum already. The only thing to note here is the password and email address, if the email address was private and a legitimate email address (as many are not). There also isn't a "personal text number". The personal text is the little bit of text you can set under your avatar. It isn't a phone number.

https://www.leakedsource.com/blog/bitcointalkbtce

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And from the same article, off topic but interesting re: the Btc-e hack of 2014

The hacked forum DB (more specifically the member's table) has apparently been for sale for a long time now, and has apparently been sold a couple of times as well. A few people have wrecked a decent amount of havoc by both trolling and scamming smallish amounts using information from the hacked DB.

I saw the listing as it went live, and they were incredibly cheap accounts too. I'm very scared for my account :'(

Change your passwords everyone.

Well you should not have to worry if you change your password, right?  I just changed mine now. 

I don't think that if I got hacked, they could do much with my account.  It's the green-trusted hero and legendary members who have to watch out.

They could also be either farmed accounts or really old inactive accounts that were part of the early hacks, who didn't change their passwords when the database was compromised. We should be good since Theymos hasn't issued any serious warnings about it (yet).

Can we get a confirmation from the staff that forum was not hacked again today?
It is mildly unsettling seeing that old leaked database appeared just now. There is no connection between today's DDoS and that hacked database??

I think the guys selling the data base are using the current DDOS attack as a cheap way to get people to think bitcointalk is hacked again, to get more interest in the older data base they have been selling several times already.

This.

If i remember correct there were offers to sell the db dump just 1 or 2 weeks after the hack.

I'm guessing staff have already bought this to check what was sold on.

But I think BitHodler was correct and that is the real story.