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Title: Change all pools login info ASAP Post by: sacskate on January 13, 2014, 08:52:20 PM I'm pretty sure this all started on Pickaxe's coinye pool. I have noticed several users complaining of this. I used the same pass for the pickaxe coinye pool, coin army's usde pool and I guess happyminer's 42 coin pool. I think that's all but honestly I dont remember. With all the fail pools at launches there are too many logins to remember if I reused any anywhere else. So far I have lost about 30,000 usde and the big one is .0015 [42]. I am going to start using lastpass for all of my pool logins. There's an active scammer out there emptying pool accounts. I've lost over .2 btc and it sucks. You live and learn I guess.
Title: Re: Change all pools login info ASAP Post by: xbudahx on January 13, 2014, 08:54:49 PM Sad that this has to be said but I imagine lots of others do the same.
Password Gorilla is a tiny, free program for storing and generating passwords. USE IT https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/downloads Title: Re: Change all pools login info ASAP Post by: Amph on January 13, 2014, 08:59:13 PM happened to me too, but i've lost only 3k dent 42.
some other pool owner, is scamming users who use the same credentials to login... Title: Re: Change all pools login info ASAP Post by: xIronCrossx on January 13, 2014, 09:01:39 PM Who the fuck uses the same info on every pool? Must be the same idiots who use online wallets. Stupid people will always get scammed.
Title: Re: Change all pools login info ASAP Post by: sacskate on January 13, 2014, 09:05:05 PM With so many pools I flipped through a few different logins. I was not aware of easy to use password generators that store passwords for you, like lastpass or the one you mentioned. I have been altcoin mining for over a year now and never had a problem, until I did. ;) Now I will use lastpass for everything. Scammers suck!
I didn't use the same info for every pool, but after using 100's of pools, yeah some get reused. Title: Re: Change all pools login info ASAP Post by: xIronCrossx on January 13, 2014, 09:09:26 PM Sorry, I just see so many dumb people on these forums(not you) that are just asking to get scammed or can't google/think for themselves.
Lastpass is great, although it's still not going to be the safest due to it being an online password holder. Should be good enough against these types of attacks though, since I am assuming these guys aren't the best hackers out there. Title: Re: Change all pools login info ASAP Post by: sacskate on January 13, 2014, 09:11:17 PM Yea, I don't think they are really hacking anything. I'm pretty sure it was just a pool owner using logins on various pools until he gets lucky.
Title: Re: Change all pools login info ASAP Post by: RB25 on January 13, 2014, 09:15:10 PM Isn't this another reason you shouldn't have a huge balance on the pool account and get it into your wallet?
Title: Re: Change all pools login info ASAP Post by: Thom on January 13, 2014, 09:16:49 PM Anybody is welcome to try to hack my p2pool, middlecoin and elegius logins.
;D Title: Re: Change all pools login info ASAP Post by: sacskate on January 13, 2014, 09:17:26 PM Normally I do cash out to my wallet. I mined the 42 early on and honestly forgot about them until today.
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