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Title: [2017-03-05]Cloudflare’s Cloudbleed Continues to Bother Bitcoin Industry
Post by: Kemarit on March 05, 2017, 08:28:36 AM
The year 2017 hasn’t turned out to be a great one for few information technology solutions providers. In the past few weeks, two major incidents have made the customers take a step back and reevaluate their contingency plans.

Online platforms experienced severe disruptions and tense days after two of the leading providers, Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services faced issues. The whole Cloudflare incident labelled as “Cloudbleed” was caused by a bug in the system which potentially compromised the privacy of a small group of users. According to certain reports, over 1.2 million users on over 3,400 websites including the likes of Uber and OKCupid were affected by the memory leak.

Cloudflare’s services are used by a majority of the cryptocurrency platforms. The possible leak of sensitive information including passwords, encryption keys, messages, IP addresses and HTTPs requests due to Cloudbleed has got them concerned. Many exchanges and cryptocurrency services have started sending emails to their customers, asking them to take precautions to prevent any unauthorized access to their accounts.

Full Read  Here: http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/03/05/cloudflare-cloudbleed-btc-issue/ (http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/03/05/cloudflare-cloudbleed-btc-issue/)


Title: Re: [2017-03-05]Cloudflare’s Cloudbleed Continues to Bother Bitcoin Industry
Post by: Pursuer on March 05, 2017, 08:51:25 AM
why did you use the word "continues to bother"? this is considered a very old news now.
when security is involved specially when money is also involved a couple of hours is already too late. this news is from more than 10 days ago.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug/

and the important keyword to pay attention to is "...possible leak of information affecting some websites..."
if passwords and stuff like that were leaked we could have seem lots of people screaming here that they lost their coins on exchanges and web wallets.

with that said if there is anyone left who hasn't yet changed his passwords they must do it immediately although nothing may ever happen.