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Title: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: kokojie on April 11, 2013, 01:54:48 PM
https://btc-e.com/news/136

BTC-E just changed the way you login, and under the news, a lot of people are commenting their account was compromised and bitcoins lost. Anyone know what's going on at BTC-E?


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: wndrbr3d on April 11, 2013, 01:59:11 PM
i think it was a common sense change. people in the chat box were chatting with their user names, so it makes sense to protect the actual credentials people login with.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: WishIStartedSooner on April 11, 2013, 02:00:26 PM
BTC-E is way too unstable for my trust. I hate that it's the biggest litecoin exchange (so far).

I always immediately withdraw my coin when im done transacting with it (if btc-e will let me).


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: mr_random on April 11, 2013, 02:01:40 PM
Maybe some accounts got brute forced. It always was a weakness that you could see everyone's login names in the trollbox.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: Aztec on April 11, 2013, 02:01:55 PM
i think it was a common sense change. people in the chat box were chatting with their user names, so it makes sense to protect the actual credentials people login with.
Makes sense. Seems like a security oversight in the first instance letting people use username for chat and login


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: manface on April 11, 2013, 02:05:58 PM
BTC-E is way too unstable for my trust. I hate that it's the biggest litecoin exchange (so far).

I always immediately withdraw my coin when im done transacting with it (if btc-e will let me).

A lot of people act this way with BTC-e , it's smart.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: rofloflo on April 11, 2013, 02:31:38 PM
BTC-E is way too unstable for my trust. I hate that it's the biggest litecoin exchange (so far).

I always immediately withdraw my coin when im done transacting with it (if btc-e will let me).

A lot of people act this way with BTC-e , it's smart.

There is actually no valid reason to leave your money in other wallets be it an exchange or a pool in which you mine.
90% of the complaints I read on this site are related to people blaming others for their own blind trust in human nature....

Lesson all coinbugs should learn from gold and silver bugs....if it ain't in your possession, it ain't yours.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: pekv2 on April 11, 2013, 02:33:29 PM
Pull your funds out before it is too late.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: manface on April 11, 2013, 02:36:49 PM
BTC-E is way too unstable for my trust. I hate that it's the biggest litecoin exchange (so far).

I always immediately withdraw my coin when im done transacting with it (if btc-e will let me).

A lot of people act this way with BTC-e , it's smart.

There is actually no valid reason to leave your money in other wallets be it an exchange or a pool in which you mine.
90% of the complaints I read on this site are related to people blaming others for their own blind trust in human nature....

Lesson all coinbugs should learn from gold and silver bugs....if it ain't in your possession, it ain't yours.

I agree, smart words I hope others can learn from.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: bitcoinnix on April 11, 2013, 02:51:24 PM
SOMEONE STOLE 125LTC from my account in there


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: Aztec on April 11, 2013, 02:56:31 PM
SOMEONE STOLE 125LTC from my account in there

MotherF***ers


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: kokojie on April 11, 2013, 02:58:27 PM
BTC-E is way too unstable for my trust. I hate that it's the biggest litecoin exchange (so far).

I always immediately withdraw my coin when im done transacting with it (if btc-e will let me).

A lot of people act this way with BTC-e , it's smart.

There is actually no valid reason to leave your money in other wallets be it an exchange or a pool in which you mine.
90% of the complaints I read on this site are related to people blaming others for their own blind trust in human nature....

Lesson all coinbugs should learn from gold and silver bugs....if it ain't in your possession, it ain't yours.

There is actually a bit of reason with BTC-E, since they charge a high fee for withdrawal, 0.01 BTC each time. So small time traders might not like to pay $1+ for every withdrawal, and would likely to accumulate more balance before making a withdrawal.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: RauBan on April 11, 2013, 04:15:53 PM
some1 tried to reset my email on there, i guess they couldn't crack my pw :P


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: bitcoinnix on April 11, 2013, 04:21:36 PM
I take it back - they are having database problems - it's making it look like any pending sell orders that you have (which lock up your USD/LTC/BTC and make it not appear in the "finances" page) are all not visible but if you go into orders, you can still see it in there.

I cancelled my pending sell orders and am going to sit back until they have their DB issues sorted. 

Sorry to help spread any panic.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: Joerii on April 11, 2013, 04:22:25 PM
SOMEONE STOLE 125LTC from my account in there

Those BASTARDS !!!


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: Balthazar on April 11, 2013, 05:14:46 PM
https://btc-e.com/news/136

BTC-E just changed the way you login, and under the news, a lot of people are commenting their account was compromised and bitcoins lost. Anyone know what's going on at BTC-E?
Someone started bruteforce a week ago, 90% of TOR exit nodes was banned :D



Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: bradmurmz on April 11, 2013, 05:55:31 PM
There is no way it was bruteforce... I had a randomly generated unique password and my account was cleaned out.

Check this thread!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170592.60


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: bitcoinnix on April 11, 2013, 07:06:05 PM
There is no way it was bruteforce... I had a randomly generated unique password and my account was cleaned out.

Check this thread!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170592.60

Did you look here?
Go to "profile" -> "orders history" and check there - that's where mine was hiding. They disappeared from the normal viewable location on the trade page but I could cancel them and get the units back in my finances summary page.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: bradmurmz on April 11, 2013, 08:09:19 PM
There is no way it was bruteforce... I had a randomly generated unique password and my account was cleaned out.

Check this thread!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170592.60

Did you look here?
Go to "profile" -> "orders history" and check there - that's where mine was hiding. They disappeared from the normal viewable location on the trade page but I could cancel them and get the units back in my finances summary page.

The funds were transferred out of my account.. support even said so and gave me the supposed IP address of the hacker and the BTC address funds were transferred to.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: bradmurmz on April 11, 2013, 08:10:17 PM
They also never even restored access to my account afterwards... and continue to ignore me.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: bitcoinnix on April 11, 2013, 08:47:14 PM
There is no way it was bruteforce... I had a randomly generated unique password and my account was cleaned out.

Check this thread!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170592.60

Did you look here?
Go to "profile" -> "orders history" and check there - that's where mine was hiding. They disappeared from the normal viewable location on the trade page but I could cancel them and get the units back in my finances summary page.

The funds were transferred out of my account.. support even said so and gave me the supposed IP address of the hacker and the BTC address funds were transferred to.

Well that's awful - this is the sort of thing that might cause a run on the 'bank' - I've withdrawn my LTC. 


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: legend on April 11, 2013, 09:20:11 PM
I got these two pics from a forum that I'm on: http://gyazo.com/4d49da1a51830e3d9e5f0664a4d2f295
http://gyazo.com/fd17b9e04f2d202ee4fed864b9c61677


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: tgsrge on April 11, 2013, 10:11:09 PM
oh lawd....that + https://btc-e.com/news/138 + all these issues = bad.

btw that's (according to some quick googling) their freshdesk interface. either someone spent an awful lot of effort on that pic or their freshdesk got compromised.


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: legend on April 11, 2013, 10:26:51 PM
oh lawd....that + https://btc-e.com/news/138 + all these issues = bad.

btw that's (according to some quick googling) their freshdesk interface. either someone spent an awful lot of effort on that pic or their freshdesk got compromised.
https://i.imgur.com/56QpkUz.png
freshdesk compromised I believe


Title: Re: BTC-E hacked?
Post by: iruleeveryone28 on April 11, 2013, 10:38:29 PM
There is no way it was bruteforce... I had a randomly generated unique password and my account was cleaned out.

Check this thread!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170592.60

Did you look here?
Go to "profile" -> "orders history" and check there - that's where mine was hiding. They disappeared from the normal viewable location on the trade page but I could cancel them and get the units back in my finances summary page.

The funds were transferred out of my account.. support even said so and gave me the supposed IP address of the hacker and the BTC address funds were transferred to.

Well that's awful - this is the sort of thing that might cause a run on the 'bank' - I've withdrawn my LTC.  

as have i, any good ltc exchanges? vircurex good?

also, are there any good ppc wallets? trustworthy ones?