Title: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: zulu860 on January 09, 2014, 10:50:02 AM Just received a Email from Surf Scientist they were hacked for all their BTC.
Great i lost my lil 0.03 i had with them any donations is appreciated i dont mine so the lil BTC i make comes from faucets and other things. The help is Appreciated here is the email: The BITSTAMP account we used to trade the SBIF funds has been hacked! An unauthorized withdrawal of all funds was done: 2014-01-09 08:08:26 62.210.129.149 Opened bitcoin withdrawal request for 1.86635212 BTC to 1PMuGpBy61MLptYS7Re698U59MhkAbJvu2 We did NOT authorize that withdrawal but still BITSTAMP processed it. We are in touch with their support staff to resolve this. I am very, very sorry about this. The SBIF feature was very succesful and we all were making good progress with it. IF Bitstamp can recover the funds we will bring SBIF back online asap! John Moles Chief Scientist http://surfscientist.com Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: BawsyBoss on January 09, 2014, 12:28:32 PM Any reason you press ENTER randomly? It makes it slightly more difficult to read.
Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: zyj3000 on January 09, 2014, 01:47:11 PM http://whois.net/whois/surfscientist.com (http://whois.net/whois/surfscientist.com)
Domain Name: SURFSCIENTIST.COM Registry Domain ID: 1695609936_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Creation Date: 2012-01-06 02:30:00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2015-01-06 02:30:23Z Registrar: ENOM, INC. Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@enom.com Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4252744500 Reseller: NAMECHEAP.COM Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: Registrant Name: STEVE TAURMAN Registrant Organization: TAURMANENTERPRISES Registrant Street: 1825 VALLEY VIEW RD Registrant Street: N/A Registrant City: NEW ALBANY Registrant State/Province: IN Registrant Postal Code: 47150 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.8129482302 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: +1.8129482302 Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: TWISTEDTAR@CFL.RR.COM Registry Admin ID: Admin Name: STEVE TAURMAN Admin Organization: TAURMANENTERPRISES Admin Street: 1825 VALLEY VIEW RD Admin Street: N/A Admin City: NEW ALBANY Admin State/Province: IN Admin Postal Code: 47150 Admin Country: US Admin Phone: +1.8129482302 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: +1.8129482302 Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: TWISTEDTAR@CFL.RR.COM Registry Tech ID: Tech Name: STEVE TAURMAN Tech Organization: TAURMANENTERPRISES Tech Street: 1825 VALLEY VIEW RD Tech Street: N/A Tech City: NEW ALBANY Tech State/Province: IN Tech Postal Code: 47150 Tech Country: US Tech Phone: +1.8129482302 Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: +1.8129482302 Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: TWISTEDTAR@CFL.RR.COM Name Server: NS1.NOJOKEHOSTING.COM Name Server: NS2.NOJOKEHOSTING.COM DNSSEC: unSigned Last update of WHOIS database: 2013-12-22 07:05:24Z Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: e521 on January 09, 2014, 01:49:08 PM what's the point of the whois pasted about and what's surfscientist.com anyway?
Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: zyj3000 on January 09, 2014, 02:03:22 PM i'm not sure whether the owner can be trusted or not, who knows if John Moles is even a real name?
Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: zyj3000 on January 09, 2014, 02:04:59 PM what's the point of the whois pasted about and what's surfscientist.com anyway? if you don't know what's surfscientist.com, then what's the point you post here? Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: zulu860 on January 09, 2014, 02:16:40 PM Thank you zyj3000
Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: deepceleron on January 09, 2014, 02:29:47 PM That 1995 HTML hurts my brain.
Tell them that their own lack of credential security does not obviate them from financial obligations. They can get 1.8 BTC in a few hours on localbitcoins.com. Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: zyj3000 on January 09, 2014, 02:49:14 PM you are welcome.
Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: MPOE-PR on January 09, 2014, 02:51:00 PM We did NOT authorize that withdrawal but still BITSTAMP processed it. ::) Chief Scientist :o Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: bitideas on January 09, 2014, 03:43:28 PM i'm not sure whether the owner can be trusted or not, who knows if John Moles is even a real name? John Moles has always been very above-board and always pays commissions promptly. Steve Taurman and I go way back. He owns several Viral Mailers and always pays commissions on time. My experiences doing business with these men has been very positive. Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: zulu860 on January 09, 2014, 08:49:51 PM Unfortunate what happened then thx Bitideas def a lesson learned on my part.
Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: zyj3000 on January 10, 2014, 02:37:39 AM NEWS: John Moles has refunded the principal amount to me, this is very good consider he didn't recover the stolen amount from bitstamp yet.
i apologize for my skepticism. Title: Re: SurfScientist.com just got HACKED Post by: zulu860 on January 10, 2014, 12:20:49 PM Yes i got this email, I apologize aswell
Hi, In my email yesterdsy I told you our BITSTAMP account has been hacked and 1.8 BTC has been stolen. This money belonged to SBIF, the SurfScientist Bitcoin Investment Fund. We have another fund, held at Coinbase, that contains the money for the Shared profit Plan (the weekly payouts). These funds are unaffected and the Shared Profit Plan operates as before. It's a bad enough thing to lose one's own money, but is far more terrible to lose funds trusted to you by someone else. I will not expose myself to such experience again. Therefore, the Investment Fund will be re-openend but with some important changes : 1) it is not possible to directly deposit BTC into the Fund anymore. The only way to put funds in there is by setting the 'PayoutToFund" flag in your memberprofile to "Yes". This will deposit your weekly payouts from the Shared profit Plan into the fund. 2) you will still earn 0.25% daily over your SBIF balance. 3) You can withdraw your SBIF balance when it reaches the 0.001 btc minimum payout level. 4) When you SBIF Balance grows to > 0.01 BTC it will be automatically paid out. These rules ensure the fund will not grow to a size I cannot recover in case of disaster. There's been a big explosion in the lab - but we're still alive and kicking! John Moles Chief Scientist http://surfscientist.com |